The UAI Urquiza Gazette
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
UAI Urquiza 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Mateo Fofre’s move to Magallanes falls through
The deal that would have taken Mateo Fofre to Magallanes has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to UAI Urquiza with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Tempers go at UAI Urquiza
Franco Mesa 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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
The decline has begun for Tomás Asprea
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 33 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for UAI Urquiza is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Graduation day at UAI Urquiza
6 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
A row about effort at UAI Urquiza
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Arcuri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets5 Feb 2029
Newell's Old Boys tell UAI Urquiza: Francisco Sciarini 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
UAI Urquiza promote Gabriel Di María from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Di María 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Daniel Romano steps up from the UAI Urquiza academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Romano has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Joaquín Sosa joins the UAI Urquiza first team
- Boardroom UAI Urquiza board go back on their word
- The dugout Gerónimo Poblete gets it from the manager