Luis Martinez

Goalkeeper - Mineros de Guayana
25 Sep 2028
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Marked for Luis Martinez

79 Edition

The Mineros de Guayana Courier

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 Jan 2028

Luis Martinez: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mineros de Guayana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Renzo Zambrano 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 Mineros de Guayana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings31 Jan 2028

Renzo Zambrano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The Mineros de Guayana Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Jun 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Zamora

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mineros de Guayana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings14 Jun 2027

Jesús Rengel runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match12 Jun 2027

No end in sight to Mineros de Guayana's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mineros de Guayana has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Renzo Zambrano 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 Mineros de Guayana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces14 Jun 2027

Mineros de Guayana spend $130.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $130.0K for Luis Martinez, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad14 Jun 2027

José Pinto 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.

Match12 Jun 2027

Mineros de Guayana come up short against Deportivo Tachira

Deportivo Tachira left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market14 Jun 2027

Gabriel Monjes is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Mineros de Guayana has been clear about where Gabriel Monjes stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad14 Jun 2027

The manager makes an example of Maiker Rivas

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

46 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings14 Jun 2027

Daniel Herrera runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 62. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Fabian Hernandez damages knee ligaments — 88 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 88 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Sergio Murillo breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market14 Jun 2027

Andres Arango puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zulia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom14 Jun 2027

Zulia to lose Jose Murillo for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jose Murillo has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Match12 Jun 2027

Zulia make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market14 Jun 2027

Business is business: Luis Martinez goes

Mineros de Guayana paid $130.0K and Zulia took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market14 Jun 2027

Zulia sell Victor Moreno for $110.0K

Victor Moreno has left for Mineros de Guayana in a $110.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Words at Zulia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Guzmán is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

45 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Jun 2027

Fabian Hernandez damages knee ligaments — 97 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 97 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Sergio Murillo breaks a bone — 34 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings7 Jun 2027

Carlos Rincon scores twice — 9.01

Two goals and a mark of 9.01 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Carlos Rincon is carrying Zulia

20 goals and a season average of 7.52. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match5 Jun 2027

The wait goes on for Zulia

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad7 Jun 2027

The season belongs to Ilja Zhbanov

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Zulia have had the benefit of it.

Market7 Jun 2027

Jose Murillo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zulia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market7 Jun 2027

Eyes on Luis Martinez again

The phone has started ringing about Luis Martinez again, and this time the name on the line is Mineros de Guayana. Zulia are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings7 Jun 2027

Nobody could get near Juan Murillo

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

21 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market21 Dec 2026

Universidad de Concepcion watching Salomon Castillo

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Zulia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Zulia

Guillermo Guzmán 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.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Cristian Cordova gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market21 Dec 2026

Luis Martinez is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Zulia has been clear about where Luis Martinez stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Sebastián Sanabria still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Zulia would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Victor Soteldo has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Victor Soteldo keeps the shirt for now, at Zulia's convenience rather than his own.

In brief