The Gimnasia La Plata Gazette
Match6 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Gimnasia La Plata's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gimnasia La Plata has to find a result from somewhere.
Match6 Feb 2027
8 unbeaten for Gimnasia La Plata
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Gimnasia La Plata did not have in the autumn.
Market8 Feb 2027
Carlos Rodríguez comes home
The shirt still fits. Carlos Rodríguez is back at Gimnasia La Plata, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market8 Feb 2027
Facundo Miranda is a Gimnasia La Plata player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Feb 2027
Tarta is a Gimnasia La Plata player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Feb 2027
Fran comes home
The shirt still fits. Fran is back at Gimnasia La Plata, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Gimnasia La Plata lose Julián Kadijevic
79 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Gimnasia La Plata are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 27874. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Mateo Seoane
“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.
In brief
- Match Gimnasia La Plata and Estudiantes take a point apiece
- Squad Marcelo Torres knocks on the manager's door
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Nelson Insfrán