The Parque del Plata Gazette
Squad8 Mar 2027
8 saves: Facundo Pareja was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Parque del Plata
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Parque del Plata
Joaquín Gómez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Parque del Plata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reymond de Morales is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match6 Mar 2027
Parque del Plata come up short against Salto
Salto left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market8 Mar 2027
Parque del Plata promote Leonardo Cabrera from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Leonardo Cabrera 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.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Franco Grigera gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Daniel Pellistri left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Franco Grigera dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Squad Michael de los Santos is not saying it is over
- The dugout Michael de los Santos left out for tactical reasons at Parque del Plata
- Market Parque del Plata put Nahuel Araujo up for sale