The UCV Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Yanniel Hernández
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yanniel Hernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around UCV the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
UCV to lose Yohan Cumaná for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Yohan Cumaná has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at UCV
Carlos Cermeño and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Jean Franco Castillo will join UCV for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Jean Franco Castillo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means UCV have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Junior Casseres joins the UCV first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Junior Casseres is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Alejandro Osorio joins the UCV first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alejandro Osorio is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Gabriel Ramirez steps up from the UCV academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Ramirez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Yohan Cumaná
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yohan Cumaná, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Luis Álvarez in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation UCV are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at UCV
- Squad An aura around Vicente Rodríguez
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Jean Carlos Polo