The currency that bears the name of the Central University of Venezuela is the most exciting project in recent years in Venezuelan soccer. After having been the first champion of the professional football era in 1957, the glorious tricolor team was diluted due to the lack of institutional support from the authorities of the highest study house in the country, which abandoned the team to its fate and, in Consequently, the team was lost in the second division until disappearing from the national scene.
But a group of businessmen, led by the president of the institution Juan Manuel Useche, had the idea of reviving the old motto of the house that conquers the shadows, and after 36 years of remaining in the shadows of Venezuelan football, the UCV returned in 2020 to the highest category with an ambitious project that after four years begins to reap what has been sown.
The UCV has enormous potential to grow institutionally and athletically. In the first aspect, its board does not want the team to be a bird of passage, like so many football projects in the country that have been swallows. The large investment they are making to build their own training and training facilities for minor categories in Los Samanes is an example of the commitment they have made to develop with firm foundations that will sustain the team over time.
The fact that players who belong to the UCV already appear in the calls for the minor national teams, such as Wilander Muñoz, Santiago Virgüez, Yimbert Berroterán, Alxander Granko and that some emerging talents such as Daniel de Sousa (20 years old), author of the second whether in the victory against Deportivo Táchira or Jean Polo (18 years old), being part of the first team reveals the importance that the board and the coaching staff give to the youth team.
The investment made this season to build a team with aspirations, under the leadership of Daniel Sasso, one of the most promising young coaches in the country, has been rewarded on the field. UCV is the strongest team in the 11 rounds of the Futve League. It has the least thrashed defense of the Apertura tournament with six goals conceded, a solidity that has allowed it to remain undefeated, and a plural offense in which Sasso has known how to distribute the task of scoring among all of his troops.
Good teams are structured from the back of the field and UCV has done so based on the excellent performance under the goal of goalkeeper Miguel Silva, who after his time at Academia Puerto Cabello, has gained the confidence and support to exhibit his speed to close spaces, win heads-up or avoid the fall of your fence with formidable covers. Central defender Adrián Martínez has recovered that relentless scoring presence to win high and low that he had before at Deportivo La Guaira and led him to wear the Vinotinto shirt in the Qatar World Cup qualifier. Sasso has been able to take advantage of his finishing ability and two of the three goals that UCV has scored to win or tie games through the air have been scored by Martínez.
The choral attack is another of the valuable characteristics of Sasso’s UCV. Given the injuries that have prevented them from having all their artillery full time, Brayan Hurtado, the Colombian Yeiber Murillo and the Argentine Tomás Blanco have shared the role of finishing in the rival area. The prize of qualifying for the semifinals of the Apertura tournament would be enough for another team under construction, but not for this UCV that passed the exempt round and now wants to win its second title.
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After 36 years of remaining in the shadows of Venezuelan football, the UCV returned to the highest category in 2020
They have the defense with the least goals scored in the tournament with six goals conceded, a strength that has allowed them to remain undefeated
The choral attack is another valuable feature. Hurtado, Murillo and Blanco have shared the responsibility of liquidating
The management blunders have Caracas plunged into confusion
A great performance from Caracas FC in the Copa Libertadores could not be expected with a squad that saw its best forwards come out and to cover the casualties, the manager only brought in Edwuin Pernía as the only reliable and proven piece in the country to shake the nets . The dismissal of Leo González, a few days after facing Atlético Mineiro at the Olympic stadium, was a clumsy decision and disrespectful to a coach who led the team to runners-up, got them into this year’s Copa Libertadores and secured a place of 3 million dollars for participating in the most prestigious Conmebol tournament.
The presence of Henry Meléndez on the Caracas bench made it impossible for him to suddenly change the dynamics of the team. The result of managerial decisions was expressed on the field. El Rojo offered one of his worst images in the Copa Libertadores against Mineiro. Fragile, insecure, overcome with astonishing ease, Caracas paid with a rout that could have been more scandalous for the blunders committed from the office.
Táchira defended with criteria but needs to step into the rival area to transcend
We expected a more determined performance in Deportivo Táchira’s attack in its debut against River Plate in the Copa Libertadores, in a dazzling setting of 30 thousand people who filled the Pueblo Nuevo stadium in San Cristóbal with excitement. Despite the 0-2 defeat suffered against River Plate, we must recognize coach Eduardo Saragó that he came out with a well-worked plan to make the millionaire team uncomfortable, prevent his control of the ball from translating them into clear scoring options and keep the score at zero until get a clear chance to hurt Franco Armani’s goal.
Táchira defended well until Diablito Echeverri changed the pace of the game, complicated the Aurinegra defense with his ability to play in few spaces, and fortune was on the millionaire’s side with a carom goal from Boselli and a second goal that produced a once every hundred years of Fonseca. What can be criticized against Saragó is that Táchira generated very little in the opposing area, even though they were playing at home and had the energy of their fans in their favor. To transcend in the Cup, Táchira has to think more about the opposing goal.
2024-04-07 10:02:00
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