Luis Gimenez

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Marked for Luis Gimenez

264 Edition

The General Diaz Herald

18 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market18 Aug 2031

Abdoulaye Yoro puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at General Diaz, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad18 Aug 2031

A falling-out at General Diaz

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

Squad18 Aug 2031

A row about effort at General Diaz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Milton Castagna was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad18 Aug 2031

Too much change too quickly at General Diaz

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Market18 Aug 2031

Still no signature from Francisco Mongelos

4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what General Diaz could get for him.

Market18 Aug 2031

The Giovanni Gómez talk will not go away

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

In brief

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The General Diaz Herald

31 Mar 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match29 Mar 2031

No end in sight to General Diaz's wait for a win

18 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at General Diaz has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad31 Mar 2031

Tempers go at General Diaz

Oscar Meza 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.

Squad31 Mar 2031

Milton Castagna 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.

Match29 Mar 2031

A bad afternoon for General Diaz against General Caballero

1‑2 to General Caballero, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout31 Mar 2031

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.

Market31 Mar 2031

No place for Daniel Alvarado in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Daniel Alvarado has his answer from General Diaz; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout31 Mar 2031

Francisco Mongelos knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at General Diaz, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout31 Mar 2031

The manager makes an example of Eric Cristaldo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings31 Mar 2031

Nobody could get near Christian Martínez

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

236 Edition

The General Diaz Herald

3 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Feb 2031

Oscar Meza stands alone

25 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Boardroom3 Feb 2031

General Diaz run out of patience with Oscar Romero

The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Oscar Romero clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.

Match1 Feb 2031

Nowhere to hide for General Diaz

1‑6 against Olimpia, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match1 Feb 2031

9 matches without a win for General Diaz

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around General Diaz are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom3 Feb 2031

A stranger takes charge at General Diaz

The coaching staff has emptied out entirely and there was nobody internal to promote, so the club has appointed a name almost none of its supporters will recognise. Clubs recover from this; none of them enjoy explaining it.

Boardroom3 Feb 2031

Interim Coach minds the shop at General Diaz

“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Interim Coach recited it perfectly.

The dugout3 Feb 2031

Abdoulaye Yoro says General Diaz went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad3 Feb 2031

Adrián Cova in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at General Diaz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Feb 2031

Luis Gimenez among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Luis Gimenez on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of General Diaz and Olimpia.

In brief