Ignacio Cano

Goalkeeper - Lugo
28 May 2028
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95 Edition

The Lugo Courier

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 May 2028

Nicolás Previtali breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad22 May 2028

Ignacio Cano stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market22 May 2028

Vitinho 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 The request is on a desk at Lugo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market22 May 2028

Lugo may not be able to give Christantus Uche what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Christantus Uche wants continental football; whether Lugo can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad22 May 2028

Christantus Uche 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 Lugo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad22 May 2028

Words at Lugo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gaspar Iñíguez 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.

Match20 May 2028

A bad afternoon for Lugo against Cádiz

0‑2 to Cádiz, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout22 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Jorge Sáenz

“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 dugout22 May 2028

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Nil León left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

Back issues
94 Edition

The Lugo Courier

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces15 May 2028

Supporters organise against the Lugo board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad15 May 2028

27 days out for Nicolás Previtali after a fracture

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

Match15 May 2028

Lugo sink to position 20

31 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad15 May 2028

A one-man rearguard from Ignacio Cano

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The dugout15 May 2028

Jorge Sáenz: 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.” Lugo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings15 May 2028

Lautaro Taboada scores twice — 8.21

Two goals and a mark of 8.21 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad15 May 2028

A falling-out at Lugo

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

Boardroom15 May 2028

Still nobody in the Lugo dugout

14 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Squad15 May 2028

Sandro falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

93 Edition

The Lugo Courier

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom8 May 2028

Lugo part company with Pol Ruiz

The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.

Squad8 May 2028

A fracture rules Nicolás Previtali out for 34 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lugo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom8 May 2028

Nil León steps up at Lugo for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Match6 May 2028

6 matches without a win for Lugo

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Lugo are no longer polite ones.

Market8 May 2028

Anas Zniti 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 Lugo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad8 May 2028

Lautaro Taboada makes the wrong kind of headline

Dealt with internally, which is the phrase a club uses when it would rather nobody asked twice. He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday.

Market8 May 2028

Iñaki Rupérez wants more than Lugo are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad8 May 2028

Gaspar Iñíguez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gaspar Iñíguez and Lugo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad8 May 2028

Words exchanged at Lugo

Christantus Uche 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.

In brief

86 Edition

The Lugo Courier

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces20 Mar 2028

The mood at Lugo has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Nicolás Previtali breaks a bone — 90 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom20 Mar 2028

Lugo give the job to Pol Ruiz

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Match20 Mar 2028

Every point is an argument now for Lugo

Position 21 and 23 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match18 Mar 2028

The wait goes on for Lugo

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Ignacio Cano keeps Lugo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad20 Mar 2028

A falling-out at Lugo

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

Squad20 Mar 2028

Gaspar Iñíguez falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match18 Mar 2028

A bad afternoon for Lugo against Burgos

1‑3 to Burgos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

68 Edition

The Real Madrid Sentinel

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 Nov 2027

A falling-out at Real Madrid

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

Squad15 Nov 2027

Real Madrid lose Ignacio Cano

34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Loan watch15 Nov 2027

Sergio Mestre has seen enough of Juventud Torremolinos

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Real Madrid, and 1 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout15 Nov 2027

Marcus Thuram has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Real Madrid will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout15 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Brahim Díaz

“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.

Market15 Nov 2027

The Bernardo Silva story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Bernardo Silva signs something — a contract at Real Madrid or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Looking ahead15 Nov 2027

Santiago Mouriño faces his old club

Alavés next, and one man in the Real Madrid dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Georges Mikautadze remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Real Madrid would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Mario Martín has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Real Madrid will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief