The Deportivo Tachira Gazette
Squad18 Dec 2034
The knee: Darwin Rincon out for 20 days
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Tachira lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market18 Dec 2034
Luis Vásquez 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 The request is on a desk at Deportivo Tachira, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market18 Dec 2034
Felipe Vogchumian is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportivo Tachira is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market18 Dec 2034
Jeremi Machado is a Deportivo Tachira player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad18 Dec 2034
Alan Galeano 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 Tachira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom18 Dec 2034
Deportivo Tachira agree a free transfer for Adriano Sanabria
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Transfer targets18 Dec 2034
Caracas tell Deportivo Tachira: Martín Espinoza Pino is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad18 Dec 2034
A row about effort at Deportivo Tachira
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Charly Vegas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market18 Dec 2034
Talks stall between Deportivo Tachira and Mathías González
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- The dugout Marcos Gafaro has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad The formation has left Jeremi Machado behind
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Dilan Cardozo