The Caracas Herald
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Guillermo Vernal
112 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Caracas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Carlos Espinoza out for 94 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Caracas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market25 Jan 2027
Eduardo Fereira 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 Caracas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mauricio Márquez says 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Frankarlos Benítez keeps Caracas in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Robert Hernández
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Graduation day at Caracas
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match23 Jan 2027
Estudiantes de Caracas take the points off Caracas
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market25 Jan 2027
One of our own: Andres Machis joins the Caracas first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andres Machis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Alejandro Ramirez joins the Caracas first team
- Market Caracas promote Darwin Gonzalez from within
- Boardroom Caracas are making the ground bigger