David Arango

Striker - Portuguesa U18
15 Sep 2031
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Marked for David Arango

173 Edition

The Portuguesa Gazette

19 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Nov 2029

David Arango damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.

Market19 Nov 2029

Maelo Rentería has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Portuguesa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market19 Nov 2029

Álbaro Polo 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 Portuguesa can pretend not to have heard.

Squad19 Nov 2029

Words at Portuguesa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Lovazzano 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 dugout19 Nov 2029

Lautaro Lovazzano is still paying for one afternoon at Portuguesa

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.

The dugout19 Nov 2029

Joantony Carmona asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout19 Nov 2029

When it matters, Brayan Suárez 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.

The dugout19 Nov 2029

A door opens for Ezequiel Gnemmi

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market19 Nov 2029

The clock does Álbaro Polo’s negotiating for him

1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Portuguesa could ask drops and the wages Álbaro Polo can ask rise.

In brief

Back issues
172 Edition

The Portuguesa Gazette

12 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad12 Nov 2029

The knee: David Arango out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Portuguesa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market12 Nov 2029

Maelo Rentería puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Portuguesa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market12 Nov 2029

Álbaro Polo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Portuguesa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad12 Nov 2029

Words exchanged at Portuguesa

Lautaro Lovazzano 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.

Squad12 Nov 2029

Julio Da Silva 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.

The dugout12 Nov 2029

Joantony Carmona knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Joantony Carmona trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout12 Nov 2029

When it matters, Mariano Riegel 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.

Market12 Nov 2029

Nobody at Portuguesa has picked up the phone to Carlos Casseres

9 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad12 Nov 2029

Carlos Hernández is doing the arithmetic

The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at Portuguesa says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.

In brief

171 Edition

The Portuguesa Gazette

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad5 Nov 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Arango

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Portuguesa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

Portuguesa spell it out for Rafael Rondon

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Rafael Rondon has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match5 Nov 2029

Every point is an argument now for Portuguesa

Position 12 and 23 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market5 Nov 2029

Julio Da Silva asks to leave Portuguesa

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Words at Portuguesa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Lovazzano 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.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Óscar González is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Words exchanged at Portuguesa

Álbaro Polo 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.

Market5 Nov 2029

Portuguesa and Carlos Hernández are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout5 Nov 2029

Carlos Hernández loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Carlos Hernández's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

In brief