Marked for Leonardo Auris
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Dec 2036
Yuriel Celi 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 Deportivo Municipal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Dec 2036
Kevin Tapia 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.
Squad1 Dec 2036
Leonardo Auris has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Municipal 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Boardroom20 Oct 2036
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market20 Oct 2036
“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 The request is on a desk at Deportivo Municipal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad20 Oct 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Municipal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Match29 Mar 2036
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Mar 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportivo Municipal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 Mar 2036
Yuriel Celi 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 Deportivo Municipal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Mar 2036
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.
Squad31 Mar 2036
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match29 Mar 2036
A 1‑1 draw with Alianza Lima leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Jan 2036
Yuriel Celi 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.
Squad28 Jan 2036
The manager plants his flag on Elías Contreras
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Elías Contreras’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Leonardo Auris is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.