The Mineros de Guayana Courier
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Carlos Espinoza says Mineros de Guayana went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mineros de Guayana lose Rafael Sánchez
19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Mineros de Guayana
Juan Román Zarza 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Jan Franc Lucumí was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
3 academy graduates step up at Mineros de Guayana
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market25 Jan 2027
Mineros de Guayana promote Alejandro Gonzalez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alejandro Gonzalez 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Gabriel Osorio steps up from the Mineros de Guayana academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Osorio 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
One of our own: Junior Gonzalez joins the Mineros de Guayana first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Junior Gonzalez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Blas Rolón
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Blas Rolón, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Mineros de Guayana against Atletico Venezuela
- Squad Words at Mineros de Guayana training over how hard people work
- Squad Mineros de Guayana are still strangers to each other