The Deportivo Armenio Gazette
Squad8 Feb 2027
The knee: Federico Motta out for 31 days
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Armenio lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match6 Feb 2027
Deportivo Armenio tear Brown de Adrogué apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Brown de Adrogué, and it could have been more.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Deportivo Armenio told to sell
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Deportivo Armenio
Nicolás Sánchez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Deportivo Armenio
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Deportivo Armenio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
One of their own: Mauro Dávila
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Valentín Giménez joins the Deportivo Armenio first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valentín Giménez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Deportivo Armenio promote Willy from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Willy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Juan Carlos González steps up from the Deportivo Armenio academy
- Market Deportivo Armenio promote Gustavo Ortiz from within
- Player ratings One of those days for Franco Vega