The Deportivo La Guaira Gazette
Squad14 Jul 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gastón González
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo La Guaira lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match14 Jul 2036
Deportivo La Guaira are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 50 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad14 Jul 2036
A one-man rearguard from Cristopher Varela
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.
Match12 Jul 2036
Still nobody has beaten Deportivo La Guaira
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market14 Jul 2036
Thiago Silva puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Deportivo La Guaira, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Jul 2036
Martín Gianoli in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo La Guaira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jul 2036
A move Thiago Silva would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Thiago Silva is living that version at Deportivo La Guaira, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings14 Jul 2036
Ninety minutes of Bruno Celan at his very best
Marked 9.30. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Deportivo La Guaira.
Match12 Jul 2036
Enmanuel Meléndez the difference as Deportivo La Guaira beat Atletico Venezuela
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Enmanuel Meléndez. 3‑1 against Atletico Venezuela, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Boardroom Deportivo La Guaira agree a free transfer for Promise Awosanmi
- Player ratings Thiago Charras was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings A masterclass from Axel Encinas