Ely Valderrey

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12 Edition

The Metropolitanos Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Jeizon Ramírez Chacón: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Metropolitanos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad19 Oct 2026

The step up is real for José Urbina

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Metropolitanos

Jean Franco Fuentes was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Words at Metropolitanos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jeizon Ramírez Chacón 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.

Market19 Oct 2026

One of our own: Miguel Martinez joins the Metropolitanos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miguel Martinez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad19 Oct 2026

20 new faces, and Metropolitanos are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

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11 Edition

The Metropolitanos Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

Jean Franco Fuentes 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 Metropolitanos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Jeizon Ramírez Chacón 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 dugout12 Oct 2026

Rafael Sangiovani 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.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Ely Valderrey knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ely Valderrey trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

When it matters, Mario Granado plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

A door opens for Ezequiel Viola

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

2 Edition

The Metropolitanos Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match8 Aug 2026

Metropolitanos taken apart

0‑4 to Deportivo La Guaira, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Jeizon Ramírez Chacón beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad10 Aug 2026

6 saves: Yhonatann Yustiz was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Agustín Bianciotti has agreed to leave Metropolitanos for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Metropolitanos

Jean Franco Fuentes 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Jeizon Ramírez Chacón 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Luis Rosales steps up from the Metropolitanos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Rosales has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Diego Savarino joins the Metropolitanos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego Savarino is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Metropolitanos promote Cristian Martinez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristian Martinez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief