Richard Moreno

Left Forward - Estudiantes de Caracas
26 Sep 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Richard Moreno

97 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Genderson Ascanio asks to leave Estudiantes de Caracas

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas come up short against Trujillanos

Trujillanos left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Darwin Ramirez 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

The manager makes an example of Carlos Herrera

“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.

Squad

Maciej Pietrzyk stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Maciej Pietrzyk and Estudiantes de Caracas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Victor Rosales is still paying for one afternoon at Estudiantes de Caracas

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market

No place for Junior Martinez in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Junior Martinez has his answer from Estudiantes de Caracas; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Richard Moreno

A mark of 5.52 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Player ratings

Andres Ferraresi could not find anything

5.67. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

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83 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Estudiantes de Caracas out

Out, 1‑2 to Deportivo Tachira, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

Metropolitanos punish Estudiantes de Caracas for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Rafael Rondon will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Estudiantes de Caracas escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Squad

Gabriel Herrera breaks a bone — 35 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Player ratings

A first appearance Richard Moreno will want to forget — 5.53

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.53, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad

Words at Estudiantes de Caracas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Machis 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Estudiantes de Caracas

Diego Machis 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Carlos Machis

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

No hiding place for Juan Ramírez

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Ramírez, and the manager let it.

In brief