Edson Castillo has been without doubt the best transfer business done by Kaizer Chiefs in a long while based on what he has already shown on the pitch to date.
Castillo has had a superb start to his time at Chiefs with three goals from seven appearances.
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Besides goalkeeper Brandon Petersen and the two central defenders Given Msimango and Thatayaone Ditlhokwe, the Venezuelan has been the only other player to feature in every minute for Chiefs in all their seven games in the league and MTN8.
There is no arguing that Castillo has come out with top marks for what he has done for Amakhosi thus far, with the Portuguese-speaking pair of Edmilson Dove and Lehlogonolo George Matlou helping him to adjust.
The plus has been the recent arrival of fellow Spanish speaking striker Jasond Gonzalez.
Word coming out from Venezuela is that Castillo's form at Chiefs is being monitored by national team coach Fernando Batista.
The Argentine coach is aware of Castillo having worked with him while serving as an assistant to Jose Nestor Pekerman in the two years prior to taking over the head coach job.
Contacts in Venezuela have indicated that while Castillo has not been called up for the start of the CONMEBOL edition of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against neighbours Colombia and Paraguay this month, his name will come under consideration for the next camp if he continues with his good form.
Venezuela's squad only has seven players from clubs in Europe with the rest either in North or South America with seven players from the MLS.
Castillo arrived at Chiefs having played in the 2023 Copa Libertadores group stages and having won six caps for Venezuela, the last of which came against Brazil late in 2021.
The 29-year-old was also called up for the national team last year (2022).
As the second lowest ranked country (57 on world rankings) in CONMEBOL, Venezuela remains the only South American country to hand out caps to players plying their trade in the PSL.
La Guardia Nacional have never been to the World Cup and their best at Copa America has only been fourth place which was in 2011.
Rafael Dudamel remains the most prominent Venezuelan to play in the PSL.
The retired goalkeeper earned 58 caps for Venezuela and was still called up through his season of battles at Sundowns where he made eight appearances in the 2005/06 season before leaving.
Jose Torrealba won 10 caps for Venezuela while playing in the PSL for Mamelodi Sundowns and Chiefs.
Torrealba won seven caps while playing for Sundowns and then added another three when he got to Chiefs with his international career ending while he was at Naturena.
Castillo is only the third Venezuelan to play for Chiefs after Torrealba and Gustavo Paez.