The Vélez Gazette
Squad18 Sep 2028
The knee: Luis De Luca out for 52 days
52 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Vélez lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match13 Sep 2028
The small margins put Vélez out
Out, 0‑0 to Lanús, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Tomás Marchiori wins the shoot-out
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Market18 Sep 2028
Leonel Roldán hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vélez can pretend not to have heard.
Match16 Sep 2028
9 unbeaten for Vélez
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Vélez did not have in the autumn.
Market18 Sep 2028
Francisco Pozzo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vélez they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match16 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Vélez's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vélez has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Tomás Marchiori in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
No hiding place for Diego Valdés
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Diego Valdés, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Juan Manuel Moreno steps up from the Vélez academy
- Market One of our own: Nicolás Cabrera joins the Vélez first team
- Player ratings Alex Luna in the eights