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Marked for Mingo

127 Edition

The Gimnasia y Esgrima Sentinel

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom1 Jan 2029

Pressure builds in the Gimnasia y Esgrima boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

The terraces1 Jan 2029

The mood at Gimnasia y Esgrima has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad1 Jan 2029

Tomás O'Connor is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Gimnasia y Esgrima will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

The dugout1 Jan 2029

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Transfer targets1 Jan 2029

Gimnasia y Esgrima rebuffed over Valentino Chilsi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Banfield have kept their man, and Gimnasia y Esgrima go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout1 Jan 2029

No hiding place for Aquiles Paoli

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aquiles Paoli, and the manager let it.

Squad1 Jan 2029

Mingo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mingo and Gimnasia y Esgrima agree another 3 years.

Squad1 Jan 2029

“I want to play”: Aquiles Paoli speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout1 Jan 2029

Tomás O'Connor loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Tomás O'Connor's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

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The Gimnasia y Esgrima Sentinel

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom4 Dec 2028

The scrutiny sharpens at Gimnasia y Esgrima

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Gimnasia y Esgrima is running low.

The dugout4 Dec 2028

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Squad4 Dec 2028

Facundo Lencioni 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.

Market4 Dec 2028

The Julián Ceballos conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: River Plate will make the call about Julián Ceballos this week. Gimnasia y Esgrima have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Market4 Dec 2028

Gimnasia y Esgrima promote Mingo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mingo 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.

Market4 Dec 2028

Chapa steps up from the Gimnasia y Esgrima academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Chapa 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.

Market4 Dec 2028

One of our own: Luis Alberto Castillo joins the Gimnasia y Esgrima first team

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

The dugout4 Dec 2028

The manager makes an example of Aquiles Paoli

“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.

Squad4 Dec 2028

Gabriel Navarro signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriel Navarro commits to Gimnasia y Esgrima for another 3 years.

In brief