Marked for Marcelo Camargo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Vélez
Elías Gómez 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Ronaldo Martínez has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Vélez
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jano Gordon was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Lucio Valdez conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Eibar will make the call about Lucio Valdez this week. Vélez have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Vélez
A 1‑0 win over Alvarado, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Dilan Godoy, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.21
A mark of 8.21 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Dilan Godoy
At 20 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vélez
Tomás Nosei 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jano Gordon 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.30 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Vélez had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.