The Rayo Zuliano Post
Squad11 Jan 2027
The knee: Oscar Ferraresi out for 27 days
27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rayo Zuliano lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market11 Jan 2027
José Ochoa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rayo Zuliano can pretend not to have heard.
Market11 Jan 2027
So close: José Camacaro’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Deportivo Tachira moved on, José Camacaro reports back to Rayo Zuliano, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
No thanks: Lucas Freitas rejects the move
Rayo Zuliano had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Vasco da Gama, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Ignacio Sáez
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Rayo Zuliano
Joiser Arias 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Jorge Gómez 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Rayo Zuliano promote Andres Machis from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andres Machis 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Rayo Zuliano promote Rafael Rondon from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rafael Rondon 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.
In brief
- The dugout Joiser Arias gets it from the manager
- The dugout José Camacaro gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Samuel Orejuela keeps his manager's vote