The Parque del Plata Gazette
Squad26 Mar 2029
Franco Grigera keeps Parque del Plata in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match26 Mar 2029
Parque del Plata are in real trouble now
Position 9, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Words exchanged at Parque del Plata
Joaquín Gómez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match24 Mar 2029
Parque del Plata find a way past Bella Vista
Bella Vista made Parque del Plata work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Alexis Zelarayán in the eights
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Words at Parque del Plata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Cisneros is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
Nahuel Araujo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
A satisfied Jack Dixon
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Jack Dixon could afford to be generous.
Boardroom26 Mar 2029
Nobody arrives at Parque del Plata until somebody leaves
The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Parque del Plata this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.
In brief
- The dugout Agustín Cartagena gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Thiago Morales
- Market Marcos Saavedra placed on the list