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Process

Marked for Pipe

184 Edition

The Godoy Cruz Herald

4 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Ramiro Martínez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Godoy Cruz can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Bruno Leyes wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Godoy Cruz hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Junior Marabel signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Junior Marabel and Godoy Cruz agree another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Godoy Cruz

Junior Marabel 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.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Godoy Cruz

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Godoy Cruz

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

Player ratings

Facundo Altamira was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Godoy Cruz come up short against River Plate

River Plate left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Daniel Martínez steps up from the Godoy Cruz academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Martínez 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.

In brief