The Deportivo Armenio Gazette
Squad3 Feb 2031
Diego Nakache damages knee ligaments — 85 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 85 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.
Squad3 Feb 2031
Ezequiel Zapata breaks a bone — 87 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market3 Feb 2031
Mattia Ciancaglini has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Deportivo Armenio they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market3 Feb 2031
Mateo La Bollita puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Deportivo Armenio, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match1 Feb 2031
9 unbeaten for Deportivo Armenio
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Deportivo Armenio did not have in the autumn.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
The Deportivo Armenio board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
Deportivo Armenio to lose Mattia Ciancaglini for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mattia Ciancaglini 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.
Squad3 Feb 2031
Diego Nakache signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diego Nakache commits to Deportivo Armenio for another 2 years.
Squad3 Feb 2031
A falling-out at Deportivo Armenio
Nicolás Sánchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- Boardroom Graduation day at Deportivo Armenio
- Market One of our own: Hernán Castro joins the Deportivo Armenio first team
- Market Licha steps up from the Deportivo Armenio academy