The Vélez Gazette
Squad15 Mar 2027
Juan Cruz Policella signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Cruz Policella commits to Vélez for another 5 years.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Matías Pellegrini beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Pellegrini 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
Late, late show earns Vélez a point
Minute 91, against Central Córdoba SdE, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Match13 Mar 2027
Vélez share the spoils with Central Córdoba SdE
A 2‑2 draw with Central Córdoba SdE leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Emanuel Mammana wants out of the spotlight
The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Ronaldo Martínez
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Simón Prima
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Simón Prima, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Market The Emanuel Mammana question follows Vélez around
- The dugout Alex Verón has become a man the manager trusts