The Aragua Chronicle
Squad25 Sep 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Junior Arango
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aragua lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Aragua
Víctor Villasanti 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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
A row about effort at Aragua
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Grey Montiel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
Dante Jadli 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 dugout25 Sep 2028
Jesús Rengel 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 dugout25 Sep 2028
The manager makes Agustín Rodríguez a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Aragua. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Squad Romeo Di Modugno is not doing himself any favours
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on José Velásquez
- Boardroom The Aragua production line keeps running