The Belgrano Gazette
Squad7 Feb 2028
31 days out for Alcides Benítez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Belgrano will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match5 Feb 2028
7 matches without a win for Belgrano
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Belgrano are no longer polite ones.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Bryan Reyna: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Belgrano have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market7 Feb 2028
Only the photograph left for Gonzalo Zelarayán
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gonzalo Zelarayán will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Belgrano the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Franco Vázquez 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 Belgrano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Belgrano
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match5 Feb 2028
Belgrano come up short against Independiente Rivadavia
Independiente Rivadavia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market7 Feb 2028
Belgrano promote Lucas Escobar from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lucas Escobar 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
One of our own: Benicio Muñoz joins the Belgrano first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Benicio Muñoz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market José González steps up from the Belgrano academy
- Squad Nicolás Fernández is no longer first choice
- Squad Jeremías Lucco falls out with a teammate over standards