Marked for Daniel Murillo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Anzoátegui lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Anzoátegui is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Anzoátegui this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lisandro Pérez is on it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Emerson Ruíz knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emerson Ruíz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Daniel Murillo damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Lisandro Pérez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lisandro Pérez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Anzoátegui the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Juan Silgado 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Anzoátegui training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antony Velasco 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Anzoátegui, another week without a signature from Lisandro Pérez.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jesús Castellano is on it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Pablo Bonilla has written the date down.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clock does Guillermo Marín’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Anzoátegui could ask drops and the wages Guillermo Marín can ask rise.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Josué Agüero keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Anzoátegui say nothing, which says plenty.