Joaquin Gimenez

Central Defender - Huracan del Paso U18
3 Jul 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Joaquin Gimenez

107 Edition

The Huracan del Paso Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Huracan del Paso finish in position 9

34 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad

Joaquin Gimenez breaks a bone — 18 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Nahuel López, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.23

A mark of 8.23 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout

Keiner Pérez frozen out at Huracan del Paso

This is not rotation. Keiner Pérez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Huracan del Paso is pretending otherwise.

Market

Only the photograph left for Nicolás Casa

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicolás Casa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Huracan del Paso the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Huracan del Paso

Benjamín Villagra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Christian Tabó is slowing down

At 34, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad

Words at Huracan del Paso training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Tabó 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Inti López

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

Back issues
106 Edition

The Huracan del Paso Gazette

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

25 days out for Joaquin Gimenez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Huracan del Paso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Elbio Núñez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Elbio Núñez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Huracan del Paso the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Benjamín Villagra 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 Huracan del Paso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Augusto Lucero signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Augusto Lucero commits to Huracan del Paso for another 4 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Huracan del Paso

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christian Tabó was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Enzo Ribeiro

“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.

The dugout

No place for Aarón Soria on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Huracan del Paso pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Luis Antivero

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Huracan del Paso told Luis Antivero something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

Aarón Soria dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief