The Vélez Gazette
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Matías Pellegrini beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market3 Aug 2026
Emanuel Mammana raises the bar for Vélez
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Vélez heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Vélez
Tomás Marchiori and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rodrigo Aliendro signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rodrigo Aliendro commits to Vélez for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lisandro Magallán 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Diego Valdés stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.96 on the card, and the Vélez support went home talking about one name.
Match1 Aug 2026
Vélez and Newell's Old Boys take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Vélez and Claudio Baeza
“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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Emanuel Mammana 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 Emanuel Mammana trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Squad A first senior shirt for Luca Feler
- Market Nobody at Vélez has picked up the phone to Marcelo Camargo