David Martinez

Goalkeeper - Estudiantes de Caracas
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for David Martinez

4 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Estudiantes de Caracas turn down Atromitos for David Martinez

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Estudiantes de Caracas

José Ferrer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Victor Soteldo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Victor Soteldo

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

The small margins put Estudiantes de Caracas out

Out, 2‑3 to Zamora, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market

Central Coast Mariners come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Estudiantes de Caracas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

A brace, and Richard Ramirez takes the afternoon — 7.95

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Richard Ramirez provided it, and the 7.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from David Martinez

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

4 matches without a win for Estudiantes de Caracas

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Estudiantes de Caracas are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Jair Andara in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Estudiantes de Caracas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

José Ferrer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Mineros de Guayana take the points off Estudiantes de Caracas

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief