Noah Suárez

Goalkeeper - Los Andes
3 Jan 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Noah Suárez

125 Edition

The Los Andes Courier

18 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Tomás Benardoni 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 Los Andes can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

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Squad

Mario Galeano 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 Los Andes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Los Andes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moayad Al-Houti 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.

The dugout

Joaquín Flores is still paying for one afternoon at Los Andes

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Franco Ali knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Franco Ali trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Los Andes put Moayad Al-Houti up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Moayad Al-Houti may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Market

Lucas Barrientos leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Lucas Barrientos leaves Los Andes the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Market

Daniel Frías leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Daniel Frías leaves Los Andes the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

Back issues
114 Edition

The Los Andes Courier

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Los Andes are in real trouble now

Position 18, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Boardroom

Los Andes spell it out for Felipe Méndez

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Felipe Méndez has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Mario Galeano 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 Los Andes can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

The Los Andes board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad

Tempers go at Los Andes

Mario Galeano 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

A row about effort at Los Andes

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

Boardroom

Wages swallow 89% of the Los Andes income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout

The manager's exit leaves Nazareno Fernández Colombo exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Nazareno Fernández Colombo is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

The dugout

Gabriel Carrasco 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 Gabriel Carrasco is on it.

In brief

81 Edition

The Los Andes Courier

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

80 days out for Benjamín Morales after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Los Andes will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

10 matches without a win for Los Andes

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Los Andes are no longer polite ones.

Market

Axel Páez puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Los Andes, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

6 saves: Javier Bustillos was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

A falling-out at Los Andes

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

Squad

Words at Los Andes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moayad Al-Houti 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.

Market

Noah Suárez steps up from the Los Andes academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Noah Suárez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Enzo Méndez joins the Los Andes first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Enzo Méndez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Los Andes promote Roberto Lombardi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roberto Lombardi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief