The Caracas Herald
Squad24 Jan 2028
The knee: José Balza out for 17 days
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Caracas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match22 Jan 2028
Caracas make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Juan Vegas: 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.” Caracas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market24 Jan 2028
Christian Larotonda wants more than Caracas are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
Caracas tie Richard Ramirez down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Caracas
Rafael Arace 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.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
Graduation day at Caracas
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Caracas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Del Pino Mago was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 Jan 2028
Caracas promote David Herrera from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Herrera 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Jose Arango joins the Caracas first team
- Market David Ferraresi steps up from the Caracas academy
- Match Caracas rescue it on 89 minutes