Junior Martinez

Goalkeeper - Deportivo Miranda U18
18 May 2028
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Marked for Junior Martinez

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The Deportivo Miranda Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Aron Angulo says Deportivo Miranda went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

No end in sight to Deportivo Miranda's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Deportivo Miranda has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Edwin Gallego did the work nobody counts — 6.66

16 combined actions and 6.66. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

Juan Carlos Azócar 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 Miranda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

José Dario Ascanio 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.

Match

Dynamo Puerto take the points off Deportivo Miranda

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Deportivo Miranda count the cost of losing Junior Martinez

32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Aron Angulo told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Aron Angulo has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Deportivo Miranda.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Richard Murillo to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

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The Deportivo Miranda Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Deportivo Miranda

Juan Carlos Azócar 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.

Match

Academia Puerto Cabello B take the points off Deportivo Miranda

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

One of our own: Victor Cordova joins the Deportivo Miranda first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Victor Cordova is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Salomon Cordova steps up from the Deportivo Miranda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Salomon Cordova 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.

Market

Junior Martinez steps up from the Deportivo Miranda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Junior Martinez 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.

Market

Oscar Otero steps up from the Deportivo Miranda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oscar Otero 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Víctor Sifontes

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Víctor Sifontes, and the manager let it.

Squad

100 appearances for José Dario Ascanio

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad

Juan Carlos Azócar has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Deportivo Miranda know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

In brief