The Los Andes Courier
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
Mateo Gutiérrez is out at Los Andes
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Squad3 Feb 2031
A fracture rules Federico Mautone out for 107 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Los Andes will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad3 Feb 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iván Fernández
64 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Los Andes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
A stranger takes charge at Los Andes
The coaching staff has emptied out entirely and there was nobody internal to promote, so the club has appointed a name almost none of its supporters will recognise. Clubs recover from this; none of them enjoy explaining it.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
Interim Coach minds the shop at Los Andes
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Interim Coach recited it perfectly.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
5 academy graduates step up at Los Andes
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad3 Feb 2031
A row about effort at Los Andes
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joan Larroude was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Feb 2031
Los Andes promote Daniel Silva from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Silva 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.
Market3 Feb 2031
Los Andes promote Maximiliano Navarro from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maximiliano Navarro 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
- Market One of our own: Ricardo Ríos joins the Los Andes first team
- Market Alejandro Muñoz steps up from the Los Andes academy
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Federico Mautone