Marked for Facundo Caceres
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match30 Aug 2032
Every point is an argument now for Atenas
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.
Market30 Aug 2032
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2032
Tempers go at Atenas
Matías Núñez 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 dugout30 Aug 2032
Ferreira 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.
Squad30 Aug 2032
Words at Atenas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Newton Tabe 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 dugout30 Aug 2032
Samuel Gallo 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 Samuel Gallo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Player ratings8 Mar 2032
A defender's goal wins it for Atenas — 7.99
1 for Matías Núñez, marked 7.99, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market8 Mar 2032
“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.
Market8 Mar 2032
Thiago Leyro has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atenas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Tempers go at Atenas
Matías Núñez 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2032
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad8 Mar 2032
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Facundo Caceres and Atenas agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Mar 2032
A place in the month's best eleven for Guido Sosa
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Guido Sosa has come out of that comparison in the side, and Atenas have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match6 Mar 2032
Honours even between Atenas and Albion
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market8 Mar 2032
“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.