The Liniers Post
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Liniers run out of patience with Juan Carlos Romero
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Juan Carlos Romero clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Liniers have nobody left to take training
Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
Esteban Viana says Liniers 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.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Interim Coach steps up at Liniers for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A falling-out at Liniers
Mateo Gridel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Graduation day at Liniers
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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Agustín Curruhinca 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 terraces5 Feb 2029
The crowd has taken to Kevin Ferreira
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match3 Feb 2029
Gustavo Fernández sends Liniers past Fénix
It finished 2‑0, and it was Gustavo Fernández’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Liniers.
In brief
- The dugout Santiago Formichelli gets it from the manager
- Market Miguel Ojeda steps up from the Liniers academy
- Market Chucky steps up from the Liniers academy