The Deportivo La Guaira Gazette
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Carlos Rivero says Deportivo La Guaira 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
Tempers go at Deportivo La Guaira
José Alí Meza 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Deportivo La Guaira
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Flabián Londoño 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Francisco Osorio steps up from the Deportivo La Guaira academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Francisco 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Gastón Segovia gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Jorge Gutiérrez was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Juan Carlos Castellano 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 Deportivo La Guaira, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Half-satisfied: Gabriel Cordova on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
In brief
- Boardroom Deportivo La Guaira turn down the training-ground plan
- Squad Gastón Segovia: “I am not a substitute”
- Match Deportivo La Guaira draw a blank against Monagas