The Anzoátegui Courier
Squad15 Jan 2029
The knee: Pedro Álvarez out for 48 days
48 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Anzoátegui lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market15 Jan 2029
Santino Cavagna 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 Anzoátegui can pretend not to have heard.
Market15 Jan 2029
Giuliano Gualtieri has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Anzoátegui they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom15 Jan 2029
Anzoátegui to lose Giuliano Gualtieri for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Giuliano Gualtieri has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Pablo Bonilla 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 Anzoátegui this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Maicol Ruiz 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Anzoátegui count the cost of losing Sergio Arango
23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
When it matters, Wilbert Hernández plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market15 Jan 2029
The shop window has Junior Moreno in it
Anzoátegui have let the market know Junior Moreno can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- The dugout Pedro Álvarez knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Wilbert Hernández question follows Anzoátegui around
- The dugout The manager makes Rodrigo Pollero a promise