The Academia Puerto Cabello Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Jean Franco Castillo is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Academia Puerto Cabello is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Jean Franco Castillo signs for Zamora while still at Academia Puerto Cabello
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Jean Franco Castillo has agreed terms with Zamora for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Academia Puerto Cabello
Geremías Meléndez 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Academia Puerto Cabello beat the market to Adrián Montañez from Deportivo Tachira
Deportivo Tachira will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Adrián Montañez has pre-agreed a move to Academia Puerto Cabello, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Market10 Aug 2026
Salomon Herrera steps up from the Academia Puerto Cabello academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Salomon Herrera 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
One of our own: David Castillo joins the Academia Puerto Cabello first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Castillo 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
Oscar Rosales steps up from the Academia Puerto Cabello academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oscar 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Academia Puerto Cabello
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jefre Vargas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Aug 2026
12 new faces, and Academia Puerto Cabello are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Squad David Castillo, 16, gets his chance
- The dugout Daniel Saggiomo asks for a word with the manager