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109 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces28 Aug 2028

Anger at Aragua spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad28 Aug 2028

The knee: Jorge Pinto out for 75 days

75 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aragua lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout28 Aug 2028

Mateo Fernández frozen out at Aragua

This is not rotation. Mateo Fernández has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Aragua is pretending otherwise.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Aragua

Ignacio Colombo 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.

Squad28 Aug 2028

A row about effort at Aragua

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Franco Tirotta was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout28 Aug 2028

Santiago Donoso 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.

The dugout28 Aug 2028

Ignacio Colombo asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market28 Aug 2028

Ronny Maza linked with a move away

The name of Ronny Maza keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Aragua say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout28 Aug 2028

Carlos Rondon has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Aragua will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
84 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match29 Feb 2028

Aragua out of the cup

Llaneros ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

The terraces6 Mar 2028

Aragua are taken apart by Llaneros — and the town wants answers

It finished 1-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Carlos Rondon, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77

A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad6 Mar 2028

A muscle injury and 15 days out for Ronny Maza

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Aragua will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

Mateo Fernández frozen out at Aragua

This is not rotation. Mateo Fernández has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Aragua is pretending otherwise.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Words exchanged at Aragua

Ignacio Colombo 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.

Match4 Mar 2028

A bad afternoon for Aragua against Deportivo Lara

1‑2 to Deportivo Lara, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Grey Montiel runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Edwards Pereira makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

In brief

74 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market27 Dec 2027

Gustavo Velázquez 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 Aragua can pretend not to have heard.

Market27 Dec 2027

Only the photograph left for Jorge Pinto

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jorge Pinto will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aragua the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets27 Dec 2027

Aragua agree $77.0K for Salvador Bolívar

The clubs have shaken hands with Metropolitanos; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Transfer targets27 Dec 2027

Adrián Montañez is a medical away from Aragua

The deal with Deportivo Tachira is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Jorge Páez 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 Aragua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets27 Dec 2027

Portuguesa tell Aragua: Denilson Ojeda is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Words at Aragua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Blas Videla 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.

Transfer targets27 Dec 2027

A loan move for Jeizon Ramírez Chacón is in the works

Aragua have made the call to Metropolitanos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout27 Dec 2027

Emilio Troncoso gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Emilio Troncoso is on it.

In brief