Thread by @FUTVEEnglish

The FUTVE English Team of the Month
🗓 September 2021 (Thread 1/13)

🔝A teenage sensation, a FUTVE veteran, and everything in between!

🏅Deportivo Lara feature heavily as they zoomed up their group table!

🔜Look out for our Goal of the Month video out this week!

The XI:

GK: Luis Curiel
- @DeportivoLara

Lara started the month closer to relegation than Libertadores qualification. Two clean sheets and an unbeaten September has changed that entirely. Throughout, Curiel was superb, particularly against Carabobo and Aragua. #futve 2/13

RB: Francisco Uviedo
- @HnosColmenarez

Unbeaten in September (WDWD) with a goal and clean sheet to his name, the right back has been a key figure in the Barinas’ club ultra attacking and vertical football. He impressed strongly against Estudiantes and Zamora. #futve 3/13

CB: Adrian Martínez
- @DvoLaGuaira

Martínez recovered well from his sending off for a foul on Lionel Messi during WCQs to help La Guaira to a month of clean sheets: 3 games played, 0 goals conceded. He’s once again called up to La Vinotinto for October’s fixtures. 4/13 #futve

CB: Christopher Rodríguez
- @DeportivoLara

A goal, a clean sheet, and a starting berth in 3 of 4 Lara’s games saw the defender called up by Leo González (his club manager, too) to the Venezuela national team: recognition enough that his September was strong. 5/13 #futve

LB: Jon Aramburu (U20)
- @DvoLaGuaira

Like Martínez, Aramburu featured in all 3 of La Guaira’s games this month, keeping 3 clean sheets. It the perfect September to follow up an August in which CIES listed him in the Top 100 Teenagers globally for the second time this year. 6/13

DM: Elias Romero
- @UCVFCOFICIAL

UCV have got very Leicester 2014/15 vibes about them, making Romero the Danny Drinkwater of the team. Reliable, dependable, composed, and able to come up strong in the big moments. Shone against Caracas (1-1) and Atlético (4-0, ⚽️). #futve 7/13

CAM: Juan Castellanos
- @DeportivoLara

Threading key passes, making short, sharp, yard-gaining dribbles, and popping up with a goal or two is everything you want from a #10, and that is what Lara’s delivered, opening the scoring in their first two games of the month. #futve 8/13

CAM: Edgar Perez Greco
- @DvoTachira

At the ripe old age of 39, the Táchira legend whose grandfather was a founding member of the club hit 400 appearances for the Aurinegro and capped it off with a goal. He marked appearance 401 with a majestic performance vs. Portuguesa. 9/13

RW: Yerson Chacón
- @DvoTachira

It was a stellar month for the 18yo: two golazos, a hattrick of assists in the club’s biggest game of the season so far, and twice the Official Player of the Week. He leads Táchira for goal involvements (13) & is their undoubted star. #futve 10/13

LW: Juan Carlos Ortiz
- @Monagas_SC

The league’s top scorer (12) grabbed 3 in September, including a match-winning brace against UCV and a penalty in the Clásico Oriental victory over Mineros. If Monagas qualify for continental football, ‘Lete’ will deserve much credit. 11/13

ST: Irwin Anton
- @Metropolitanos_

In September’s 4 gameweeks, Metro’s all-time leading scorer was named in the Official Team of the Week 3 times - and Metro only played 3 times! Of their 8 goals, Anton scored 7. As they look to make a late charge for 2°, the goals are welcome.

Head Coach: Leo González
- @DeportivoLara

González was a busy man this month. Named Venezuela’s interim coach, he took charge for Brazil (H), Peru (A), and Paraguay (A). He then came back, led out Lara for the 200° time and lifted them from 3pts off bottom to 5 off top! 13/13