The Academia Puerto Cabello Sentinel
Match19 Aug 2026
Academia Puerto Cabello march on in the cup
Portuguesa are out and Academia Puerto Cabello go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Giovani Bamba pops up at the right end — 7.88
7.88, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Market24 Aug 2026
Robinson Flores wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Academia Puerto Cabello training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Geremías Meléndez 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Junior Moreno 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 Academia Puerto Cabello this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
One of their own: Jean Franco Castillo
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Gerardo Padrón was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Academia Puerto Cabello count the cost of losing Alejandro Rincon
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
A satisfied Sergio Castillo
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Sergio Castillo could afford to be generous.
In brief
- Squad The formation has left José Rondón behind
- The dugout Pablo Lima left out for tactical reasons at Academia Puerto Cabello
- The dugout When it matters, Daniel Rivillo plays