The General Diaz Herald
The terraces3 Apr 2028
Anger at General Diaz spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match1 Apr 2028
Amín Molinas wins it after the whistle should have gone
92 minutes played. Amín Molinas found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and General Caballero went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings3 Apr 2028
A brace, and Amín Molinas takes the afternoon — 8.55
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Amín Molinas provided it, and the 8.55 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Valentín Senatore says General Diaz 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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Blas Valenzuela 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 General Diaz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Words at General Diaz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reinaldo Benítez 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.
Match1 Apr 2028
General Diaz find a way past General Caballero
General Caballero made General Diaz work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces3 Apr 2028
The crowd has taken to Amín Molinas
At 22 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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Araujo signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Araujo commits to General Diaz for another 4 years.
In brief
- Market Mario Godoy told to find a new club
- Player ratings Luis Giménez could not find anything
- Player ratings Augusto Ruiz Díaz runs at them all day