The Gimnasia y Esgrima Herald
Squad6 Feb 2034
Lautaro Alberti breaks a bone — 46 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match4 Feb 2034
No mercy from Gimnasia y Esgrima
Alvarado will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Gimnasia y Esgrima were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings6 Feb 2034
Mauricio Almirón scores twice — 8.64
Two goals and a mark of 8.64 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match4 Feb 2034
Gimnasia y Esgrima end the wait against Alvarado
It had gone 10 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Player ratings6 Feb 2034
Noah Campos, 19, steals the show — 7.93
Marked 7.93 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Boardroom6 Feb 2034
2 academy players handed senior numbers at Gimnasia y Esgrima
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Boardroom6 Feb 2034
The owner puts $71.6K into Gimnasia y Esgrima
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
The terraces6 Feb 2034
The crowd has taken to Noah Campos
At 19 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.
Market6 Feb 2034
Gimnasia y Esgrima promote Andrés Lucero from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrés Lucero has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Alejandro Silva joins the Gimnasia y Esgrima first team
- Match Mauricio Almirón at the heart of a fast Gimnasia y Esgrima start
- Player ratings One of those days for Alejo Ross