The Deportivo Tachira Gazette
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pablo Camacho
90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Tachira lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market25 Jan 2027
Jesús Camargo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Deportivo Tachira, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Deportivo Tachira count the cost of losing Óscar Hernández
59 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Deportivo Tachira
Óscar Hernández 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Graduation day at Deportivo Tachira
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market25 Jan 2027
Diego Arango steps up from the Deportivo Tachira academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Arango 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Deportivo Tachira promote Jose Gonzalez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jose Gonzalez 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
One of our own: Roberto Murillo joins the Deportivo Tachira first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Roberto Murillo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Leonel Valencia 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Deportivo Tachira turn down the training-ground plan
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Adalberto Peñaranda
- Match Deportivo Tachira and Zulia cancel each other out