The Gimnasia y Tiro Sentinel
Squad7 Feb 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gonzalo Soto
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnasia y Tiro lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Feb 2028
Gonzalo Soto 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 The request is on a desk at Gimnasia y Tiro, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Juan Oviedo says Gimnasia y Tiro went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Gimnasia y Tiro
Juan Rocca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Gimnasia y Tiro
3 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.
Match5 Feb 2028
Gimnasia y Tiro make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad7 Feb 2028
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.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
No hiding place for Juan Rocca
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Rocca, and the manager let it.
Market7 Feb 2028
One of our own: Juan Ojeda joins the Gimnasia y Tiro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Ojeda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Gimnasia y Tiro promote Facundo Rey from within
- Market Gimnasia y Tiro promote Raúl Quiroga from within
- Player ratings Lautaro Montoya runs at them all day