The Rayo Zuliano Post
Match13 Mar 2027
No mercy from Rayo Zuliano
Academia Puerto Cabello B will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Rayo Zuliano were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Both of them Jorge Gómez's — 8.11
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match13 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Rayo Zuliano do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
A hand in 2 of them from Luis Urbina — 7.87
Marked 7.87. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Rayo Zuliano
Facundo Jainikoski 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.
Market15 Mar 2027
One of our own: Alejandro Ramirez joins the Rayo Zuliano first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alejandro Ramirez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Óscar Conde 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 dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Ian Pardo
“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 dugout15 Mar 2027
A satisfied Jose Cordova
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Jose Cordova could afford to be generous.
In brief
- The dugout Rayo Zuliano pick somebody else ahead of Jaider Julio
- Squad Jorge Gómez is off the mark for Rayo Zuliano
- The dugout Luis Urbina has become a man the manager trusts