The Deportivo Lara Herald
Match22 Jan 2028
14 matches without a win for Deportivo Lara
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Deportivo Lara are no longer polite ones.
Market24 Jan 2028
Deportivo Lara turn down Hapoel Kfar Saba for Juan Eduardo Reina
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
Nobody could get near Jacobo Kouffati
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Carlos Calzadilla 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 Lara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
Graduation day at Deportivo Lara
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.
Market24 Jan 2028
Deportivo Lara promote Daniel Arango from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Arango 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.
Market24 Jan 2028
Roberto Rondon steps up from the Deportivo Lara academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roberto Rondon 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.
Market24 Jan 2028
Richard Gonzalez steps up from the Deportivo Lara academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Richard Gonzalez 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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words at Deportivo Lara training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Annese 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.
In brief
- Match Deportivo Lara and Metropolitanos take a point apiece
- Player ratings The one thing Gabriel Souza could not do
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Jacobo Kouffati