The Gimnasia La Plata Gazette
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Gimnasia La Plata
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market8 Feb 2027
Gimnasia La Plata say no — this time
The offer from Al-Fayha for Francisco Vergara was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Gimnasia La Plata
Germán Conti 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Ivo Mammini wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Gimnasia La Plata
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
Manuel Panaro 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Gimnasia La Plata promote Miguel Flores from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Flores 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
Leonardo Muñoz steps up from the Gimnasia La Plata academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Muñoz 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.
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.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Gimnasia La Plata and Agropecuario Argentino
- Squad The manager makes an example of Augusto Max
- Squad Ignacio Fernández is off the mark for Gimnasia La Plata