The Sportivo Luqueno Gazette
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Giovanni Bogado runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Alejandro Vera out for 49 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Sportivo Luqueno
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Sportivo Luqueno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Bogado 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Ivan Almiron joins the Sportivo Luqueno first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Almiron is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Sportivo Luqueno promote Angel Santa Cruz from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Angel Santa Cruz has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
Santiago Gomez steps up from the Sportivo Luqueno academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Santiago Gomez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
Fernando Martinez steps up from the Sportivo Luqueno academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fernando Martinez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Fabinho stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fabinho and Sportivo Luqueno agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Squad Kevin Pereira in a row with a teammate
- Loan watch Diego Del Valle has seen enough of River Plate
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Álvaro Martínez