The Vélez Gazette
Squad7 Feb 2028
Michael Santos damages knee ligaments — 86 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 86 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Feb 2028
Iván Vaquero asks to leave Vélez
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Demián Troya: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vélez have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Vélez
Cristian Romero 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tomás Conechny stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tomás Conechny and Vélez agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Vélez
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Vélez
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías Cabrera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Feb 2028
Fabrizio Sartori sends Vélez past Almirante Brown
It finished 2‑0, and it was Fabrizio Sartori’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vélez.
Match5 Feb 2028
The drought breaks for Vélez
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Almirante Brown were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
In brief
- Market Vélez promote Chapa from within
- Market Luis Alberto Flores steps up from the Vélez academy
- Market Jorge Figueroa steps up from the Vélez academy