The Almagro Chronicle
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Facundo Silva is out at Almagro
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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
26 days out for Mateo Luna after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Almagro will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Mattia Ciancaglini keeps Almagro 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.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Franco Ponce takes charge at Almagro
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Player ratings5 Feb 2029
Up for the corner, and Gonzalo Asis delivers — 7.95
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Gonzalo Asis scored, was marked 7.95, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A falling-out at Almagro
Gino Barbieri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Graduation day at Almagro
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.
The terraces5 Feb 2029
The crowd has taken to Mattia Ciancaglini
At 22 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Almagro promote Felipe Varela from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Felipe Varela 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 Almagro promote Ezequiel Morales from within
- Market One of our own: Mario Cabrera joins the Almagro first team
- Market Almagro promote Patrón from within