Daniel Gimenez

Striker - Bella Vista U18
26 Jun 2033
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Gimenez

323 Edition

The Bella Vista Herald

4 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Franco Rodríguez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Franco Rodríguez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bella Vista the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Joaquín Lavandeira stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joaquín Lavandeira and Bella Vista agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Talks stall between Bella Vista and Daniel Monardes

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Words at Bella Vista training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giorgi Jinjikhadze 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Maximiliano Ramirez 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.

Loan watch

The Ezequiel Martínez loan is not working

12 appearances at Mar de Fondo for an average of 6.17. He is playing, which was the point, but nobody at either club is pretending this is going well.

Market

The clock does Daniel Monardes’s negotiating for him

5 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Bella Vista could ask drops and the wages Daniel Monardes can ask rise.

Boardroom

Bella Vista keep producing them

66 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

Loan watch

Bella Vista weigh up recalling Ezequiel Martínez

12 appearances and an average of 6.17. The spell is not working as intended, and the option to end it early is on the table.

In brief

Back issues
321 Edition

The Bella Vista Herald

20 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ala Eddine Limane 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 The request is on a desk at Bella Vista, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Bella Vista are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 30 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Mauro Fleita 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 dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Mariano Alexis Torres's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

Questions about Fernando Ortiz on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

The dugout

The manager plants his flag on Ala Eddine Limane

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Ala Eddine Limane’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief

296 Edition

The Bella Vista Herald

29 Mar 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Alejandro Ugarte is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bella Vista is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bella Vista

Isaac Auzmendi 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.

Squad

Fernando Ortiz signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fernando Ortiz commits to Bella Vista for another 1 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Manuel Altez

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Manuel Altez, and the manager let it.

The dugout

When it matters, Facundo Garcia 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.

The dugout

Daniel Gimenez knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bella Vista, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief