The Sportivo Luqueno Gazette
Squad8 Sep 2031
A fracture rules Oscar Coronel out for 106 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sportivo Luqueno will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Sep 2031
Alejo Fernández 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 Sportivo Luqueno can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Sep 2031
A falling-out at Sportivo Luqueno
Augusto Picco and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Sep 2031
Brayan Grance arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Brayan Grance has, at Sportivo Luqueno, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad8 Sep 2031
Ayrton Portillo 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.
The dugout8 Sep 2031
Iván Maggi gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Iván Maggi is on it.
The dugout8 Sep 2031
Richard Sánchez 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 Richard Sánchez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch8 Sep 2031
Encarnacion cannot leave Aarón Troche out
28 starts and an average of 6.76. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
Market8 Sep 2031
Talks stall between Sportivo Luqueno and Daniel Meza
“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.
In brief
- Market Sportivo Luqueno shop where it costs nothing
- Market Sportivo Luqueno pick up Daniel Meza for nothing
- The dugout Juan González has been promised minutes