Facundo Pérez

Defensive Midfielder - Lanús
17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Facundo Pérez

44 Edition

The Lanús Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ronaldo De Jesús puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Lanús, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Rey Manaj is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Lanús will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad

Tempers go at Lanús

Nahuel Losada 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.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The AEL Larisa Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to AEL Larisa's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AEL Larisa has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Words at AEL Larisa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pantelis Hatzidiakos 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.

Squad

Dimitris Chatziisaias in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AEL Larisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gaël Kakuta

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Zisis Chatzistravos

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Erick Ferigra

A mark of 7.38, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

AEL Larisa keep their word to Facundo Pérez

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Player ratings

Facundo Pérez was immovable

15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Pantelis Hatzidiakos

Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

22 Edition

The AEL Larisa Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Leandro Garate damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.

Player ratings

Zisis Chatzistravos scores twice — 8.33

Two goals and a mark of 8.33 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Nikos Melissas

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.

Squad

Tempers go at AEL Larisa

Leandro Garate 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Facundo Pérez

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Pérez, and the manager let it.

Match

Zisis Chatzistravos rescues a point for AEL Larisa

It needed Zisis Chatzistravos to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Levadiakos, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

18 Edition

The AEL Larisa Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Goni Naor

Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Match

AEL Larisa see off Asteras

Three points for AEL Larisa, 1‑0 the final word against Asteras in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at AEL Larisa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Savvas Mourgos 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Félix Villacorta

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Félix Villacorta, and the manager let it.

Squad

A promise honoured for Félix Villacorta

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. AEL Larisa told Félix Villacorta something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Nikos Melissas knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikos Melissas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief