Alfonso Simarra

Central Defender - UCV
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

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The UCV Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Luis Álvarez is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words exchanged at UCV

Juan Manuel Cuesta 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.

The dugout

The manager makes Carlos Cermeño a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at UCV. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

Juan Camilo Zapata has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Juan Camilo Zapata keeps the shirt for now, at UCV's convenience rather than his own.

Market

The Yohan Cumaná question follows UCV around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yohan Cumaná’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

UCV pick up Avel Medina for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Avel Medina arrives at UCV with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

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The UCV Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Carlos González is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Carlos González: 4 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Cup progress for UCV

A 0‑0 win over Portuguesa, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Words at UCV training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Cermeño 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.

Squad

A falling-out at UCV

Juan Manuel Cuesta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Adrián Martínez 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.

Player ratings

Yanniel Hernández beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Alfonso Simarra

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Squad

José Cadenas is a square peg at UCV

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

Sergio Herrera on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sergio Herrera after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief