Sergio Martinez

Striker - Atletico Venezuela
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sergio Martinez

3 Edition

The Atletico Venezuela Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Carlos Otero decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Atletico Venezuela through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Deportivo Lara, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

A first appearance Juan Savarino will want to forget — 5.58

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.58, 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

Tempers go at Atletico Venezuela

Junior Rosales 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

No hiding place for Junior Rosales

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

Match

Atletico Venezuela find a way past Carabobo

Carabobo made Atletico Venezuela work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

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The Atletico Venezuela Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Francisco Rosales leads the rout of Aragua

3‑0, and Francisco Rosales took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Atletico Venezuela tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Richard Rincon could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.94

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.94, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Player ratings

Both of them Francisco Rosales's — 8.58

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.58, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Francisco Gonzalez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atletico Venezuela can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Junior Rosales wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Junior Rosales 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 Atletico Venezuela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Atletico Venezuela supporters have found a favourite in Richard Rincon

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Richard Rincon has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

No hiding place for Sergio Martinez

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Juan Osorio

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief