Andrés Méndez

Right Midfielder - Gimnasia y Esgrima
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Marked for Andrés Méndez

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The Gimnasia y Esgrima Herald

13 Oct 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad13 Oct 2031

Nahuel Zapatiel 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 Gimnasia y Esgrima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Oct 2031

Andrés Méndez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrés Méndez and Gimnasia y Esgrima agree another 3 years.

The dugout13 Oct 2031

Claudio Lopez gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Claudio Lopez is on it.

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The Gimnasia y Esgrima Herald

10 Mar 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces10 Mar 2031

Anger at Gimnasia y Esgrima spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match5 Mar 2031

Yahir Daer sends Gimnasia y Esgrima through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Yahir Daer obliged against Los Andes. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Gimnasia y Esgrima.

Player ratings10 Mar 2031

A brace, and Yahir Daer takes the afternoon — 8.63

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yahir Daer provided it, and the 8.63 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings10 Mar 2031

Nobody could get near Andrés Méndez

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings10 Mar 2031

Cristian Romero, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74

A mark of 7.74 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout10 Mar 2031

Enzo Bruno 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.

Match8 Mar 2031

The run at home goes on for Gimnasia y Esgrima

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad10 Mar 2031

A row about effort at Gimnasia y Esgrima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nahuel Zapatiel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces10 Mar 2031

Gimnasia y Esgrima supporters have found a favourite in Cristian Romero

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Cristian Romero has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

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