Rafa

Defensive Midfielder - Godoy Cruz U20
24 Dec 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Rafa

113 Edition

The Godoy Cruz Herald

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Gonzalo Abrego out for 51 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Godoy Cruz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Nahuel Brunet hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Godoy Cruz can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Godoy Cruz

Daniel Barrea 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.

Squad

Godoy Cruz lose Rafa

31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Bruno Leyes 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

Matías Ramírez 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.

The dugout

Matías Ramírez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Godoy Cruz will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Bruno Leyes story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Bruno Leyes signs something — a contract at Godoy Cruz or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Looking ahead

Lucas Arce faces his old club

Gimnasia y Esgrima next, and one man in the Godoy Cruz dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief