The Atletico Venezuela Sentinel
Match18 Jun 2033
The wait goes on for Atletico Venezuela
16 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.
Match20 Jun 2033
Atletico Venezuela sink to position 14
16 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad20 Jun 2033
Oscar Arango keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Atletico Venezuela may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market20 Jun 2033
Zulia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Atletico Venezuela did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match18 Jun 2033
Charlis Ortíz Jr.’s goal not enough for Atletico Venezuela
Charlis Ortíz Jr. scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Metropolitanos, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad20 Jun 2033
The manager makes an example of Salomon Machis
“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.
Match18 Jun 2033
Charlis Ortíz Jr. answers Metropolitanos immediately
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Charlis Ortíz Jr. had Atletico Venezuela level again within 1 minutes, and Metropolitanos never got to play with a lead at all.
Squad20 Jun 2033
Sergio Castillo 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.
Squad20 Jun 2033
Marber Suárez 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
- Market The Johan Lopez talk will not go away
- Player ratings Maximiliano Bustos runs at them all day
- Market Sergio Rincon leaves for nothing