The Caracas Herald
Match2 Oct 2035
The run at home goes on for Caracas
27 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match2 Oct 2035
A European night to remember for Caracas
1‑0 against San Lorenzo, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match8 Oct 2035
Nobody above Caracas
First, on 67 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Market8 Oct 2035
Santiago Cuellar is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Caracas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Oct 2035
Axel Beilis gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Axel Beilis has just signed for Caracas, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad8 Oct 2035
A falling-out at Caracas
Miguel Palacios and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Oct 2035
Words at Caracas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Cuevas is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market8 Oct 2035
Julian Beltrán wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
The dugout8 Oct 2035
Santiago Cuellar 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.
In brief
- Squad Caracas count the cost of losing Daniel Moreno
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Exon Arzú
- The dugout The team sheet said everything about David Miguel