Marked for Daniel Casseres
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Mar 2027
Daniel Linarez 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Leander Pimentel is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yonaiker Martínez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
94% of the income goes out in wages at Barquisimeto
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Barquisimeto, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market29 Mar 2027
Barquisimeto have let the market know Kevin Sequera can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad8 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.45 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match6 Mar 2027
7 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Trujillanos left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Yonaiker Martínez 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Aaron Rodríguez 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.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Carlos Gil has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Jesús Parra
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Uneasy
Match24 Feb 2027
The small margins put Barquisimeto out
Out, 0‑1 to Carabobo, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
27 days out for Daniel Casseres after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Barquisimeto will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A one-man rearguard from Jesús Parra
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match27 Feb 2027
6 matches without a win for Barquisimeto
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Barquisimeto are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Frank Ramos, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.87
A mark of 7.87 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Daniel Linarez 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Ignacio Anzola 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
A point taken on 91 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Match27 Feb 2027
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Daniel Casseres out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Barquisimeto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Carlos Gil, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.67
A mark of 7.67 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market22 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Barquisimeto is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match20 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Daniel Linarez 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Yonaiker Martínez 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yonaiker Martínez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Yonaiker Martínez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Crisis
Match13 Feb 2027
0‑3 against Bolívar, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad15 Feb 2027
41 days out for Daniel Casseres after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Barquisimeto will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A one-man rearguard from Jesús Parra
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Barquisimeto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Feb 2027
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Caracas have kept their man, and Barquisimeto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Yonaiker Martínez 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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Daniel Linarez ran the middle of the pitch — 7.09
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 7.09, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“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.
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Crisis
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Daniel Casseres out for 49 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Barquisimeto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Feb 2027
Terms done: José Bello is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Aragua waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Barquisimeto is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market8 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barquisimeto, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A one-man rearguard from Jesús Parra
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Daniel Linarez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match6 Feb 2027
0‑2 to Héroes de Falcón, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ignacio Anzola 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Fernando Cordova left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Squad1 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barquisimeto, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Daniel Linarez 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Barquisimeto have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fortaleza CEIF have kept their man, and Barquisimeto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match30 Jan 2027
0‑2 to Deportivo Miranda, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Jesús Parra
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Fernando Cordova left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Barquisimeto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Campos 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.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Carlos Gil takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Carlos Gil, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 9.10
A mark of 9.10 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Rogert Daboin: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Barquisimeto have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Barquisimeto offered $250.0K; Carabobo said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad25 Jan 2027
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Barquisimeto
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Daniel Casseres out for 71 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Barquisimeto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market18 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Barquisimeto have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Aaron Rodríguez 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Barquisimeto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Frank Ramos knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Barquisimeto, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Daniel Casseres out for 78 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Barquisimeto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Daniel Linarez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Diego Landaeta
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market11 Jan 2027
Real Frontera are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Barquisimeto will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Campos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan move for Diego Ochoa is in the works
Barquisimeto have made the call to UCV. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Portuguesa have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Barquisimeto have made the call to Caracas. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
85 days out for Daniel Casseres after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Barquisimeto will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Daniel Linarez 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yonaiker Martínez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yonaiker Martínez, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market30 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barquisimeto, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Aaron Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 179% of everything Barquisimeto earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Barquisimeto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Anzola 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rogert Daboin, and the manager let it.
Market30 Nov 2026
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Barquisimeto money.