Benjamín Marino

Goalkeeper - Gimnasia y Tiro U18
5 Mar 2037
Thursday
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Marked for Benjamín Marino

476 Edition

The Gimnasia y Tiro Sentinel

10 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Gimnasia y Tiro make home a hard place to visit

16 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on José Quijada

13 goals and a season average of 7.77 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Benjamín Marino keeps Gimnasia y Tiro in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

A masterclass from José Quijada

Marked 8.96 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Matías Salgado

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Juan Martín Peralta at his very best

Marked 8.31. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Gimnasia y Tiro.

Squad

Benicio Moreno signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benicio Moreno commits to Gimnasia y Tiro for another 3 years.

Match

José Quijada rescues a point for Gimnasia y Tiro

It needed José Quijada to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Los Andes, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

When it matters, José Quijada plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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473 Edition

The Gimnasia y Tiro Sentinel

20 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Benjamín Marino

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Fausto San Pedro is carrying Gimnasia y Tiro

22 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

The wait goes on for Gimnasia y Tiro

6 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.

Player ratings

Matías Salgado runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

When it matters, Fausto San Pedro plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Match

Honours even between Gimnasia y Tiro and Tristán Suárez

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Noah Cabrera

“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.

Market

The Tiago Banega question follows Gimnasia y Tiro around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tiago Banega’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings

José Quijada leaves them behind him

Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief