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The Godoy Cruz Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lucas Arce has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Godoy Cruz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Not going: Luciano Pascual stays at Godoy Cruz

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Bukhara had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Godoy Cruz — 7.66

1 for Vicente Poggi, marked 7.66, 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.

Market

Godoy Cruz say no — this time

The offer from Carpi for Camilo Alessandria was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

Lucas Arce signs for Estudiantes while still at Godoy Cruz

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Lucas Arce has agreed terms with Estudiantes for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Player ratings

Fabricio Oviedo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Whatever happens, Godoy Cruz do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words at Godoy Cruz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Arce 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

Tempers go at Godoy Cruz

Diego Viera 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.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Godoy Cruz Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Godoy Cruz

1‑1 against Mitre, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

Both of them Luca Martínez Dupuy's — 8.80

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.80, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Juan Strumia is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Juan Strumia: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market

Godoy Cruz turn down Osasuna for Mateo Mendoza

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Roberto Ramírez wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Player ratings

Enzo Briones was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Squad

Words at Godoy Cruz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Arce 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

Tempers go at Godoy Cruz

Martín Pino 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Lucas Arce

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

3 Edition

The Godoy Cruz Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Luca Martínez Dupuy scores twice — 8.91

Two goals and a mark of 8.91 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Brian Orosco is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Godoy Cruz is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Andijon come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Godoy Cruz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom

Brian Orosco signs for Independiente while still at Godoy Cruz

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Brian Orosco has agreed terms with Independiente for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A falling-out at Godoy Cruz

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

Player ratings

Vicente Poggi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Brian Orosco 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

Godoy Cruz get the job done against Defensores Unidos

A 2‑1 win over Defensores Unidos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Novara watching Oscar Gonzalez

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Godoy Cruz have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief

2 Edition

The Godoy Cruz Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Santiago Montaña has agreed to leave Godoy Cruz for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Market

Santiago Montaña is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Godoy Cruz is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Lucas Arce 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Godoy Cruz

Diego Viera 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 ratings

Vicente Poggi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

Godoy Cruz supporters have found a favourite in Luciano Pascual

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Luciano Pascual has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

One of our own: Agustín Ramírez joins the Godoy Cruz first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Agustín Ramírez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Emiliano Rojas steps up from the Godoy Cruz academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Emiliano Rojas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Hernán García steps up from the Godoy Cruz academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hernán García has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

1 Edition

The Godoy Cruz Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Luigi Cendales runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Francisco Gerometta has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Godoy Cruz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Francisco Gerometta has agreed to leave Godoy Cruz for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Vicente Poggi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vicente Poggi commits to Godoy Cruz for another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Godoy Cruz

Vicente Poggi 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

A row about effort at Godoy Cruz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Arce was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

Godoy Cruz supporters have found a favourite in Luigi Cendales

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Luigi Cendales has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Godoy Cruz see off Talleres

Three points for Godoy Cruz, 1‑0 the final word against Talleres in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Nahuel Ulariaga wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Godoy Cruz hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

In brief