Daniel Camacho

Left Forward - Pontevedra U20
28 Aug 2036
Thursday
Process

Marked for Daniel Camacho

512 Edition

The Pontevedra Gazette

19 May 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Full time on the season at Pontevedra

Position 4 on 67 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Squad

17 days out for Daniel Camacho after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pontevedra will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Leo Moya was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Onni Soiri says Pontevedra went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pontevedra

Joaquín Rivas 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.

Squad

Bruno Valdez 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.

Match

Pontevedra come up short against Guadalajara

Guadalajara left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Henry Ross answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Sergio Delgado 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.

In brief

Back issues
511 Edition

The Pontevedra Gazette

12 May 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Daniel Camacho breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Leo Moya was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Mario Ibañez 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 Pontevedra, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

7 unbeaten for Pontevedra

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Pontevedra did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A falling-out at Pontevedra

Joaquín Rivas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Bruno Valdez 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Bruno Valdez

Marked 8.35 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 90 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Pontevedra had all but put away. Zamora will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nikita Mykhailov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Mykhailov, and the manager let it.

In brief

510 Edition

The Pontevedra Gazette

5 May 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Pontevedra run riot against Arenteiro

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

Daniel Camacho breaks a bone — 33 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Both of them Leo Moya's — 8.30

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Pontevedra up to position 3

66 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match

Nobody wants to play Pontevedra right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Gerónimo Patritti in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pontevedra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Pontevedra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Valdez 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.

Squad

Leo Moya is carrying Pontevedra

10 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Pol González

At 23 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.

In brief