The Belgrano Gazette
Squad8 Feb 2027
Leonel Juárez damages knee ligaments — 75 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 75 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Belgrano
Franco Vázquez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market8 Feb 2027
Algeciras watching Franco Rami
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Belgrano have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
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.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
One of their own: Juan Velázquez
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match6 Feb 2027
Belgrano find a way past Sarmiento
Sarmiento made Belgrano work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market8 Feb 2027
Chuequito steps up from the Belgrano academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Chuequito 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Belgrano promote Facundo Castro from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Facundo Castro 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Belgrano promote Juan Carlos Muñoz from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juan Carlos Muñoz 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
- Player ratings Juan Velázquez in the eights
- Squad Belgrano are still strangers to each other
- The dugout The manager’s verdict