Brian Jimenez

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101 Edition

The Central Espanol Gazette

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Jul 2028

Brian Jimenez damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market3 Jul 2028

Terms done: Lautaro Gandulfo is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Canadian waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Central Espanol is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market3 Jul 2028

Nicolás Campos 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 Central Espanol can pretend not to have heard.

Market3 Jul 2028

Nicolás Campos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Central Espanol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Máximo Alonso 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 Central Espanol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Ignacio Rodríguez 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.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Central Espanol beat the market to Lucas Castro from Boston River

Boston River will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Lucas Castro has pre-agreed a move to Central Espanol, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

Plaza Colonia tell Central Espanol: Guillermo de Amores is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Wages swallow 98% of the Central Espanol income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

In brief

Back issues
100 Edition

The Central Espanol Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Jun 2028

The knee: Brian Jimenez out for 27 days

27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Central Espanol lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market26 Jun 2028

Terms done: Logan Ponce is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lito waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Central Espanol is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market26 Jun 2028

Lautaro Gandulfo asks to leave Central Espanol

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad26 Jun 2028

A move Maximiliano Camargo would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Maximiliano Camargo is living that version at Central Espanol, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match24 Jun 2028

Nobody wants to play Central Espanol right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad26 Jun 2028

A falling-out at Central Espanol

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

Market26 Jun 2028

Eyes on Lautaro Gandulfo again

The phone has started ringing about Lautaro Gandulfo again, and this time the name on the line is Salus. Central Espanol are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match24 Jun 2028

Central Espanol get the job done against Uruguay Montevideo

A 3‑1 win over Uruguay Montevideo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Ignacio Rodríguez 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

81 Edition

The Central Espanol Gazette

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match12 Feb 2028

No mercy from Central Espanol

Albion will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Central Espanol were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Rodolfo 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.

Market14 Feb 2028

Nicolás Campos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Central Espanol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout14 Feb 2028

Franco Muñoz keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Central Espanol may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings14 Feb 2028

Up for the corner, and Marcos Montiel delivers — 7.62

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Marcos Montiel scored, was marked 7.62, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Player ratings14 Feb 2028

Luciano Fernández pops up at the right end — 7.70

7.70, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Máximo Alonso 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 Central Espanol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom14 Feb 2028

5 academy graduates step up at Central Espanol

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.

The terraces14 Feb 2028

One of their own: Matías Kusmanis

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.

In brief