The Deportivo Lara Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Jacobo Kouffati out for 133 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Lara will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match8 Aug 2026
Richard Figueroa wins it after the whistle should have gone
91 minutes played. Richard Figueroa found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Zamora went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Richard Figueroa scores twice — 8.73
Two goals and a mark of 8.73 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market10 Aug 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Raudy Guerrero runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Hugo Sánchez has agreed to leave Deportivo Lara for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Henry Pernía 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 Deportivo Lara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Deportivo Lara beat the market to Agustín Pérez from Deportivo Tachira
Deportivo Tachira will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Agustín Pérez has pre-agreed a move to Deportivo Lara, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Match8 Aug 2026
Deportivo Lara get the job done against Zamora
A 2‑1 win over Zamora, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Market Daniel Castillo steps up from the Deportivo Lara academy
- Market Cristian Otero steps up from the Deportivo Lara academy
- Market Deportivo Lara promote Salomon Ramirez from within