Marked for Leandro Ciccolini
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Steady
Squad26 Jul 2027
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Market26 Jul 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Gimnasia y Esgrima people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market26 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market26 Jul 2027
Talleres come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Gimnasia y Esgrima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market26 Jul 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Instituto moved on, Lautaro Carrera reports back to Gimnasia y Esgrima, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Ulises Sánchez 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Gimnasia y Esgrima offered $38.0K; Patronato said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
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Upbeat
Match17 Jul 2027
1‑4 to Independiente, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market19 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market19 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Gimnasia y Esgrima have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market19 Jul 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Everything agreed with Colón, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad19 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia y Esgrima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Tomás O'Connor falls out with a teammate over standards
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 ratings19 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Esteban Fernández has come up in conversations Gimnasia y Esgrima were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Market17 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gimnasia y Esgrima can pretend not to have heard.
Market17 May 2027
Nicolás Romano has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gimnasia y Esgrima they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match15 May 2027
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad17 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulises Sánchez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 May 2027
Esteban Fernández and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout17 May 2027
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 Ulises Sánchez is on it.
The dugout17 May 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Juan Godoy after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iván Ojeda, and the manager let it.
Squad17 May 2027
One booking too many, and Matías Muñoz sits out. Gimnasia y Esgrima lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.87 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market19 Apr 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Gimnasia y Esgrima have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market19 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market19 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Ulises Sánchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Matías Muñoz falls out with a teammate over standards
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 ratings19 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.56, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match19 Mar 2027
0‑1 against Talleres, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market22 Mar 2027
“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 Gimnasia y Esgrima, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market22 Mar 2027
Nicolás Romano has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gimnasia y Esgrima they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ulises Sánchez 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
The goal that put San Lorenzo ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Gimnasia y Esgrima equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Marked 7.99 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Gimnasia y Esgrima had the best player on the pitch.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Matías Vargas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Gimnasia y Esgrima know it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezequiel Muñoz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezequiel Muñoz, and the manager let it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Carlos Alberto Vázquez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Tomás O'Connor has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Match18 Sep 2026
7‑3 against Boston River, on a night that will be replayed at this club for a generation. Continental reputations are made in single evenings and this was the evening.
Squad21 Sep 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ezequiel Muñoz 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Central Córdoba SdE left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Muñoz 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.88, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Tomás O'Connor
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Triumph
Match26 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Argentinos Juniors, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Tobías Cervera had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Matías Vargas 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Brian Andrada has come up in conversations Gimnasia y Esgrima were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.