The Belgrano Gazette
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Jeremías Lucco
Successful dribbles: 48. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad8 Feb 2027
8 seasons of Franco Vázquez
511 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Belgrano know what they have.
Match6 Feb 2027
4 matches without a win for Belgrano
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Belgrano are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Lisandro López 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 Belgrano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Belgrano
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
Santiago Longo 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Lisandro López 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: General joins the Belgrano first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. General 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
Gael Luna steps up from the Belgrano academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gael Luna 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.
In brief
- Market Carlos Alberto Figueroa steps up from the Belgrano academy
- Market Juan Carlos Russo steps up from the Belgrano academy
- Player ratings Leonardo Morales takes the honours