The Godoy Cruz Herald
Squad25 Sep 2028
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.
Market25 Sep 2028
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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
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 dugout25 Sep 2028
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 dugout25 Sep 2028
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.
Market25 Sep 2028
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 ahead25 Sep 2028
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
- Market Godoy Cruz and Camilo Alessandria are talking past each other
- The dugout Franco Meritello has been promised minutes
- Market Still no signature from Agustín Auzmendi