The Sportivo Luqueno Gazette
Squad1 Jan 2029
Gustavo Aguilar is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Sportivo Luqueno will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market1 Jan 2029
Blas Escobar is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sportivo Luqueno is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Sportivo Luqueno
Ángel Benítez 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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Sportivo Luqueno count the cost of losing Juan Ojeda
134 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Aarón González 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.
Market1 Jan 2029
Sportivo Luqueno sign César Recalde, one for the future
César Recalde is 20, and Sportivo Luqueno have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market Sportivo Luqueno put Alexis Villalba up for sale
- Market Sportivo Luqueno pick up Thiaguinho for nothing