Chapa

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Marked for Chapa

291 Edition

The Los Andes Courier

23 Feb 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match21 Feb 2032

Los Andes come up short against Flandria

Flandria left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout23 Feb 2032

Carlos García 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 dugout23 Feb 2032

Interim Coach answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings23 Feb 2032

An afternoon Reza Khodadad will want back

Marked 5.02. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Squad23 Feb 2032

Chapa makes his debut at 17

At 17 years old, Chapa became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

Market23 Feb 2032

The Nazareno Fernández Colombo story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nazareno Fernández Colombo signs something — a contract at Los Andes or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout23 Feb 2032

Reza Khodadad knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Reza Khodadad trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout23 Feb 2032

The plan did not have a place for Tarta

Nobody at Los Andes is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Market23 Feb 2032

The clock does Oscar Machis’s negotiating for him

5 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Los Andes could ask drops and the wages Oscar Machis can ask rise.

In brief

Back issues
288 Edition

The Los Andes Courier

2 Feb 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout2 Feb 2032

Reza Khodadad frozen out at Los Andes

This is not rotation. Reza Khodadad has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Los Andes is pretending otherwise.

Squad2 Feb 2032

Ignacio Casas signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ignacio Casas and Los Andes agree another 2 years.

Squad2 Feb 2032

Words exchanged at Los Andes

Alan Ríos 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.

Boardroom2 Feb 2032

Graduation day at Los Andes

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.

Boardroom2 Feb 2032

The owner puts $58.3K into Los Andes

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Market2 Feb 2032

One of our own: Chapa joins the Los Andes first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Chapa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market2 Feb 2032

Los Andes promote Miguel Ángel Godoy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Ángel Godoy 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.

Market2 Feb 2032

Pocho steps up from the Los Andes academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pocho 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.

Market2 Feb 2032

Los Andes promote Hernán Cabrera from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hernán 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.

In brief