Brian Gimenez

Left Midfielder - La Luz
15 Jan 2031
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Brian Gimenez

217 Edition

The La Luz Post

23 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

La Luz counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at La Luz now.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Market

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.

Market

Lucas Pías runs his contract down

2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs La Luz money.

Boardroom

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

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211 Edition

The La Luz Post

12 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The season ends: position 8 for La Luz

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 33 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Player ratings

Paolo Cueva scores twice — 9.10

Two goals and a mark of 9.10 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Juan Moreno stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Only the photograph left for Lucas Pías

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucas Pías will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around La Luz the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

Brian Gimenez, 18, steals the show — 8.04

Marked 8.04 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Brian Gimenez 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 La Luz can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

La Luz to lose Lucas Pías for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Lucas Pías has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Match

7 unbeaten for La Luz

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation La Luz did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Tempers go at La Luz

Tiago Benzi 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.

In brief