The Parque del Plata Gazette
Squad12 Apr 2027
Facundo Pareja keeps Parque del Plata in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match10 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Parque del Plata
6 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Parque del Plata
Joaquín Gómez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Jonathan Isasmendi beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Jonathan Isasmendi 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
One of our own: Luis Silva joins the Parque del Plata first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Silva is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
No hiding place for Ruben Rodríguez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ruben Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Bruno Irigoyen
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Match10 Apr 2027
Joaquín Gómez rescues a point for Parque del Plata
It needed Joaquín Gómez to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Huracan Buceo, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- The dugout Ezequiel López is still paying for one afternoon at Parque del Plata
- The dugout Alvaro Nunez on the point
- Squad The division's best last weekend was a Parque del Plata man