The Metropolitanos Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Metropolitanos
Jean Franco Fuentes 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jeizon Ramírez Chacón 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 Aug 2026
One of our own: Junior Rosales joins the Metropolitanos first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Junior Rosales 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
Metropolitanos promote Victor Savarino from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Victor Savarino has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Metropolitanos promote Miguel Martinez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Martinez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Junior Casseres joins the Metropolitanos 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Metropolitanos against Deportivo La Guaira
0‑1 to Deportivo La Guaira, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Junior Herrera faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Junior Herrera after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Óscar Hinojosa
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Óscar Hinojosa, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Looking ahead Saimon Ramírez goes back to face Zulia
- Squad A season on the outside for Jesús Vargas
- Squad Yhonatann Yustiz has seen what the next man earns