The words a physio says slowly. 61 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
14 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Leandro Quiroz 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.
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Godoy Cruz can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
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 words a physio says slowly. 77 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Tomás Pozzo 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.
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Godoy Cruz will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Squad8 May 2028
Words at Godoy Cruz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Gerometta 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.
Two goals and a mark of 8.59 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Godoy Cruz have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Add another name to the list: IF Gnistan have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Daniel Barrea. The answer from Godoy Cruz has not changed — yet.
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Tomás Pozzo 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.
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
A 2‑1 win over Almirante Brown, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Godoy Cruz have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Tomás Pozzo 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.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
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 words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Pascual was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Miguel Rossi after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Godoy Cruz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Godoy Cruz can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leandro Quiroz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Something was said to Leandro Quiroz and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Godoy Cruz, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Francisco Gerometta is on it.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Daniel Barrea signs something — a contract at Godoy Cruz or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Facundo Altamira may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Two goals and a mark of 8.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Godoy Cruz have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.87 for the rest of it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Godoy Cruz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Godoy Cruz and Gimnasia y Esgrima, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Add another name to the list: Atyrau have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Braian Salvareschi. The answer from Godoy Cruz has not changed — yet.
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Godoy Cruz lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Irtysh had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Godoy Cruz can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Godoy Cruz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The phone has started ringing about Luciano Pascual again, and this time the name on the line is Atyrau. Godoy Cruz are listening politely and promising nothing.
“I did not go to Gimnasia La Plata to sit and watch. I want to come back to Godoy Cruz and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Facundo Altamira wants continental football; whether Godoy Cruz can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
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.
Boardroom24 May 2027
Nobody left the Godoy Cruz dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Godoy Cruz, and 6 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Godoy Cruz, and it is not being withdrawn.
Martín Pino 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.
The phone has started ringing about Lucas Arce again, and this time the name on the line is Racing Club. Godoy Cruz are listening politely and promising nothing.
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Godoy Cruz will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emanuel Quinteros will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Godoy Cruz the goodbyes have quietly begun.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Emanuel Quinteros 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benjamín Schamine was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Godoy Cruz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lucas Arce wants continental football; whether Godoy Cruz can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Leandro Quiroz has agreed terms with Unión de Santa Fe for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Lucas Arce 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.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luca Martínez Dupuy. 1‑0 against Morón, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Godoy Cruz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamín Schamine 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.
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
16 new faces, and Godoy Cruz 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.
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Colón kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Godoy Cruz will be asked about the last half hour all week.
1 for Lucas Arce, marked 7.96, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Lucas Arce 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.
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Roberto Ramírez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 3‑3 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Godoy Cruz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Natan Navarro, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60
A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
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.
Lucas Arce 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.