The Gimnasia y Tiro Sentinel
Squad12 Apr 2027
Manuel Guanini 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Time is catching up with Rubén Villarreal
Everybody at Gimnasia y Tiro saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Juan Galetto
“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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Santiago Nogales 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 Gimnasia y Tiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Looking ahead12 Apr 2027
Matías Birge goes back to face Madryn
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Matías Birge’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Gimnasia y Tiro needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
When it matters, José Quijada plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- The dugout Santiago Nogales knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Madryn at home
- The dugout The manager comes out for Joaquín Papaleo
- Squad Welcome back, Capo