Pipe

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Gimnasia y Esgrima U18
10 Mar 2028
Friday
Process

Marked for Pipe

20 Edition

The Gimnasia y Esgrima Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Francisco Molina breaks a bone — 98 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 98 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Defensores come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Gimnasia y Esgrima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

David Gallardo 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Federico Paradela

“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.

The dugout

David Gallardo asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

Manuel Severich is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Gimnasia y Esgrima has been clear about where Manuel Severich stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

The David Gallardo story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until David Gallardo signs something — a contract at Gimnasia y Esgrima or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Matías Ramos Mingo has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Matías Ramos Mingo has written the date down.

Squad

Questions about Pipe on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Gimnasia y Esgrima Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Francisco Molina breaks a bone — 112 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 112 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Emiliano Endrizzi has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Gimnasia y Esgrima can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Gimnasia y Esgrima

Nicolás Dematei and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Pipe 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 93% of everything Gimnasia y Esgrima earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonzalo Villarreal 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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Gimnasia y Esgrima Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Sebastián Sánchez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gimnasia y Esgrima may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Gimnasia y Esgrima

Nicolás Dematei 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.

The dugout

Pipe 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.

Squad

Francisco Maidana 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.

The dugout

David Gallardo knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gimnasia y Esgrima, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The David Gallardo story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until David Gallardo signs something — a contract at Gimnasia y Esgrima or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief