The La Luz Post
Squad23 Sep 2030
The knee: Lucas Núñez out for 85 days
85 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. La Luz lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Sep 2030
A falling-out at La Luz
Tiago Benzi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom23 Sep 2030
La Luz counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at La Luz now.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Yohan González 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.
Squad23 Sep 2030
5 new faces, and La Luz are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout23 Sep 2030
Joshua Velardez asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market23 Sep 2030
The Juan Moreno question follows La Luz around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Juan Moreno’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market23 Sep 2030
Lucas Pías runs his contract down
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs La Luz money.
Boardroom23 Sep 2030
The La Luz academy earns its keep
55 graduates, from a department now rated 3 out of 20. Nothing about the academy appears in a result, and nothing about the club’s future exists without it.
In brief
- Match A season winding down at La Luz
- The dugout The manager comes out for Brian Gimenez