The Atletico Venezuela Sentinel
Squad10 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Rondon
149 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atletico Venezuela lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Jan 2028
Estudiantes de Merida 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Victor Rincon stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Victor Rincon and Atletico Venezuela agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Atletico Venezuela
Victor Rincon 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Reniel Mendoza 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Alejandro Cordova leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Alejandro Cordova leaves Atletico Venezuela the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Daniel Machis leaves for nothing
- Market Window shut, Miguel Savarino still here