Luis Murillo

Goalkeeper - Estudiantes de Caracas U18
21 Nov 2027
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Marked for Luis Murillo

43 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Luis Murillo damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Juan Rondon

There were 8 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.

Player ratings

Both of them Darwin Casseres's — 9.06

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Nobody wants to play Estudiantes de Caracas right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Darwin Casseres is carrying Estudiantes de Caracas

13 goals and a season average of 7.40. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Tempers go at Estudiantes de Caracas

José Cadenas 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.

In brief

Back issues
42 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Luis Murillo damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 37 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Ítalo Sulbarán says Estudiantes de Caracas went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

Nobody wants to play Estudiantes de Caracas right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Match

The run at home goes on for Estudiantes de Caracas

10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Darwin Casseres is carrying Estudiantes de Caracas

11 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas find a way past Atletico Venezuela

Atletico Venezuela made Estudiantes de Caracas work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Wilson Barrios

Marked 8.75 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Oscar Soteldo

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

41 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Luis Murillo damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas refuse to lose, and Darwin Casseres leads them

The 2-goal deficit was real and so was the recovery. Darwin Casseres was at the centre of it, Caracas were at the end of it, and everybody who left early will hear about this one for years.

Player ratings

Darwin Casseres scores twice — 9.16

Two goals and a mark of 9.16 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Oscar Soteldo 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Miguel Savarino

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Miguel Savarino will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Estudiantes de Caracas the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Estudiantes de Caracas

José Cadenas 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.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas see off Caracas

Three points for Estudiantes de Caracas, 3‑2 the final word against Caracas in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas 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.

Squad

Words at Estudiantes de Caracas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Salomon Arango 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

40 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Luis Murillo damages knee ligaments — 39 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 39 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.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Mineros de Guayana will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

Both of them Juan Castillo's — 8.46

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.46, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

José Cadenas 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.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas see off Mineros de Guayana

Three points for Estudiantes de Caracas, 3‑2 the final word against Mineros de Guayana in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Salomon Arango 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.

Squad

Juan Rondon 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Cristian Ramirez

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

Player ratings

Off the bench and decisive: José Cadenas

The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Estudiantes de Caracas were going nowhere until he came on.

In brief