Marked for Saimon Ramírez
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jean Franco Fuentes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Yhonatann Yustiz out for 58 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Metropolitanos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jeizon Ramírez Chacón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Deportivo La Guaira go through and Metropolitanos go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.25, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Agustín Bianciotti has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jeizon Ramírez Chacón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Metropolitanos, 2‑1 the final word against Zulia in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Sneider Navarro has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Carlos Osorio 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Junior Cordova is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Junior Cedeño has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Metropolitanos know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The form table has caught Luis Terán
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.