Marked for Darwin Martinez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Hugo Sánchez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Hugo Sánchez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportivo Lara the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Adriangel Torrealba has agreed terms with Deportivo La Guaira for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Francisco Flores and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Lara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Carlos Rondon 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alejandro Rosales 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Darwin Martinez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Junior Arango is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match8 Aug 2026
Zamora left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Deportivo Lara know which stage they are at.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.