The All Boys Gazette
Match1 Feb 2031
A hiding for All Boys
Beaten 0‑4 by Sarmiento, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market3 Feb 2031
Juan Marcoccia has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around All Boys they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout3 Feb 2031
Alejandro Muñoz: 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.” All Boys have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
5 academy graduates step up at All Boys
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market3 Feb 2031
Raúl Vidal steps up from the All Boys academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Raúl Vidal 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.
Market3 Feb 2031
All Boys promote Daniel Navarro from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Navarro 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.
Market3 Feb 2031
One of our own: Felipe Blanco joins the All Boys first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felipe Blanco is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad3 Feb 2031
Words at All Boys training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Augusto Saravia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
A promise the All Boys board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Dylan Argüello
- Boardroom Nobody left the All Boys dressing room in a hurry
- The dugout Miguel Ángel Álvarez faces the questions