Juan Martinez

Left Midfielder - Aragua U18
14 Aug 2031
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263 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

11 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Aug 2031

Juan Martinez damages knee ligaments — 26 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market11 Aug 2031

Only the photograph left for Cristhian Riveros

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Cristhian Riveros will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aragua the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings11 Aug 2031

Víctor Rivero, 33, rolls back the years — 8.25

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.25 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match9 Aug 2031

5 matches without a win for Aragua

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Aragua are no longer polite ones.

Squad11 Aug 2031

Cristhian Riveros 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.

Squad11 Aug 2031

Tempers go at Aragua

Albert García 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.

Player ratings11 Aug 2031

One of those days for Javier Villafraz

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.89, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad11 Aug 2031

Aytor Herrera gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match9 Aug 2031

Aragua share the spoils with Llaneros

A 1‑1 draw with Llaneros leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
262 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

4 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad4 Aug 2031

Juan Martinez damages knee ligaments — 33 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 33 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom4 Aug 2031

Junior Ramirez has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Aragua can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom4 Aug 2031

Crisis meeting at Aragua

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Match2 Aug 2031

The wait goes on for Aragua

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Nelson Hernández stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nelson Hernández and Aragua agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Words at Aragua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristhian Riveros is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings4 Aug 2031

Ninety minutes of Grey Montiel at his very best

Marked 8.79. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aragua.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Tempers go at Aragua

Kevin Pérez 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.

Match2 Aug 2031

Honours even between Aragua and Atletico Venezuela

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

261 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

28 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces28 Jul 2031

Anger at Aragua spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom28 Jul 2031

The scrutiny sharpens at Aragua

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Aragua is running low.

Squad28 Jul 2031

Juan Martinez damages knee ligaments — 40 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 40 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market28 Jul 2031

Justas Girdvainis asks to leave Aragua

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match26 Jul 2031

The goals have deserted Aragua

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Aragua can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad28 Jul 2031

No hiding place for Ronny Maza

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

Match26 Jul 2031

A bad afternoon for Aragua against Estudiantes de Caracas

0‑1 to Estudiantes de Caracas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad28 Jul 2031

Words at Aragua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel Jiménez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad28 Jul 2031

Alejandro Gutiérrez lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

In brief