Amy Fleurilus

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Belgrano U20
16 Nov 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Amy Fleurilus

35 Edition

The Belgrano Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Franco Vázquez

32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Belgrano lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A falling-out at Belgrano

Franco Vázquez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Alcides Benítez 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 dugout

Alcides Benítez 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.

Market

The Santiago Longo story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Santiago Longo signs something — a contract at Belgrano or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Amy Fleurilus has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Belgrano 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.

The dugout

Nicolás Fernández has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Nicolás Fernández has written the date down.

Squad

Fabricio Mendieta wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Belgrano will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout

Máximo Menseguez asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
25 Edition

The Belgrano Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Franco Vázquez out for 107 days

107 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Belgrano lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A fracture rules Adrián Sánchez out for 28 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Belgrano will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Franco Rami turns Leganés down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Belgrano

Franco Vázquez 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.

Transfer targets

Valentín Chocobar stays at Chacarita Juniors as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Belgrano will try again when the window opens; Chacarita Juniors may not be selling by then.

Market

Adrián Spörle told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Adrián Spörle has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Belgrano.

Squad

16 new faces, and Belgrano are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

No hiding place for Fabricio Mendieta

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabricio Mendieta, and the manager let it.

Market

The Santiago Longo talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Belgrano know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

21 Edition

The Belgrano Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Franco Vázquez damages knee ligaments — 138 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 138 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Belgrano are in Europe

Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.

Squad

Federico Ricca honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Belgrano had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Market

Belgrano turn down Talleres for Álvaro Ocampo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

The step up is real for Amy Fleurilus

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Market

César Galíndez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Belgrano they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Belgrano rebuffed over Santiago Rodríguez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gimnasia y Esgrima have kept their man, and Belgrano go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Alexis Maldonado 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.

Market

The Leandro Monzón conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Amazonas will make the call about Leandro Monzón this week. Belgrano have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief