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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Leandro Ciccolini
70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnasia y Esgrima lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market19 Oct 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Gimnasia y Esgrima, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Oct 2026
Position 14 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.18 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gimnasia y Esgrima may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ulises Sánchez 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad19 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
Matías Muñoz gets it from the manager
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Leandro Ciccolini
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnasia y Esgrima lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match2 Oct 2026
2‑0 against Portuguesa, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Market5 Oct 2026
Martín Pérez hands in a written request
“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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Tobías Cervera takes the afternoon — 8.06
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Tobías Cervera provided it, and the 8.06 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market5 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luciano Cingolani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gimnasia y Esgrima the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Negro 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezequiel 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Talleres, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lautaro Petruchi, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Leandro Ciccolini damages knee ligaments — 135 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 135 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Instituto will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Gimnasia y Esgrima were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market17 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Blas Armoa takes the afternoon — 8.79
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Blas Armoa provided it, and the 8.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Agustín Módica has come up in conversations Gimnasia y Esgrima were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Gimnasia y Esgrima and Instituto, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ezequiel 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
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.