The Lito Chronicle
Squad12 Feb 2029
9 saves: Matías Losada was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
Matías Losada says Lito went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Emiliano Gómez gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Emiliano Gómez has just signed for Lito, and for once the answer mattered.
Match10 Feb 2029
Whatever happens, Lito do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market12 Feb 2029
Abdi Progja comes home
The shirt still fits. Abdi Progja is back at Lito, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market12 Feb 2029
As if he never left: Emiliano Gómez returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Emiliano Gómez is a Lito player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market12 Feb 2029
Mourad Boufal is a Lito player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Words exchanged at Lito
Matías Losada 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.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Lito
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Emiliano de Oliveira
- Squad Enzo Maidana falls out with a teammate over standards
- Market One of our own: Andres Lopez joins the Lito first team