Licha

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Marked for Licha

827 Edition

The Vélez Gazette

2 Jun 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Jun 2042

Felipe Varela damages knee ligaments — 48 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match28 May 2042

Vélez are out

2‑2, and a season that ran to May has ended inside a fortnight. This is what a playoff is: nine months of work settled by a couple of evenings, and nobody who designed it was thinking about the losing dressing room.

Squad2 Jun 2042

Agustín Cortez decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match2 Jun 2042

Vélez refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 24 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market2 Jun 2042

Gael Quiroga 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.

Market2 Jun 2042

Gimnasia La Plata watching Juan Cruz Policella

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vélez have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market2 Jun 2042

Talleres come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Vélez did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad2 Jun 2042

Jano Gordon 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.

Market2 Jun 2042

Gael Quiroga 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.

In brief

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The Vélez Gazette

29 Apr 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad29 Apr 2041

Felipe Varela damages knee ligaments — 55 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 55 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match24 Apr 2041

Vélez march on in the cup

San Miguel are out and Vélez go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market29 Apr 2041

Cristian Russo 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.

Player ratings29 Apr 2041

Nobody could get near Tiziano Martinez

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad29 Apr 2041

Tempers go at Vélez

Jano Gordon 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.

The terraces29 Apr 2041

The crowd has taken to Markel Gallardo

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad29 Apr 2041

Samuel Lucero is still paying for one afternoon at Vélez

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings29 Apr 2041

Gerónimo Velozo takes the honours

Marked 7.68 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Vélez had the best player on the pitch.

Squad29 Apr 2041

When it matters, Jano Gordon 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.

In brief