Brian Olivera

Goalkeeper - Racing
21 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process
60 Edition

The Racing Courier

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

13 unbeaten for Racing

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Racing did not have in the autumn.

Market

Santiago Rinaudo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Brian Olivera 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.

Squad

Tomás Kummer is carrying Racing

11 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Costly mistake from Brian Olivera

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Brian Olivera knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Match

Honours even between Racing and San Miguel

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
52 Edition

The Racing Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Santiago Rinaudo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Sebastián Marfort is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.29 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Racing cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Racing lose Brian Olivera

41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Racing get the job done against Atlanta

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marcio Gómez

“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.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Racing

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

Alan Olinick knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Racing, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Alan Olinick

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

51 Edition

The Racing Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Brian Olivera keeps Racing in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Gaspar Iñíguez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Sebastián Marfort is carrying Racing

19 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Racing cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Match

Racing find a way past Colegiales

Colegiales made Racing work for it, but the scoreboard read 5-3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Brian Olivera

“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

49 Edition

The Racing Courier

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Brian Olivera keeps Racing in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Alan Olinick asks to leave Racing

“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.

Squad

Axel Oyola out for 88 days

The medical room confirms 88 days on the sidelines for Axel Oyola, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Sebastián Marfort is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.24 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Racing find a way past Ferro Carril Oeste

Ferro Carril Oeste made Racing work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Gonzalo Rostagno 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.

Market

Talks stall between Racing and Joaquín Medina

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

Exequiel Oviedo placed on the list

Racing have made Exequiel Oviedo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market

Ramiro Torres leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Ramiro Torres leaves Racing the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

48 Edition

The Racing Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Santiago Rinaudo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Brian Olivera keeps Racing in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Gaspar Iñíguez says Racing 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.

Market

Racing sell Matías Machado for $240.0K

Matías Machado has left for Huracán in a $240.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Racing

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

Leonel Monti 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

46 Edition

The Racing Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Racing out of the cup

Vélez ended it 1-2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Marcio Gómez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Sebastián Marfort is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.24 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Boardroom

164% of the income goes out in wages at Racing

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market

Lanús expected to open talks for Facundo Taborda

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Racing will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match

Racing get the job done against San Martín

A 1-0 win over San Martín, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Alan Olinick

“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.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Brian Olivera

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Squad

Ricardo Centurión asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

44 Edition

The Racing Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Gastón Rodríguez asks to leave Racing

“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.

Squad

Brian Olivera 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.

Match

Racing and Almagro take a point apiece

It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Racing

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

Matías Machado asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

Ignacio Valsangiácomo placed on the list

Racing have made Ignacio Valsangiácomo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

40 Edition

The Racing Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ricardo Centurión asks to leave Racing

“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.

Match

No end in sight to Racing's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Racing has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Brian Olivera 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.

Match

Racing and Alvarado take a point apiece

It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Racing

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

Ricardo Centurión asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

39 Edition

The Racing Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Brian Olivera decides it from twelve yards

4 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Cup progress for Racing

A 0-0 win over Banfield, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Alan Olinick asks to leave Racing

“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.

Squad

Marcio Gómez says Racing 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.

Match

5 matches without a win for Racing

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Racing are no longer polite ones.

Match

Madryn take the points off Racing

Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

37 Edition

The Racing Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sergio González hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Brian Olivera keeps Racing in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Leonel Monti 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

35 Edition

The Racing Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ignacio Valsangiácomo asks to leave Racing

“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.

Squad

Brian Olivera keeps Racing in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Racing see off Atlanta

Three points for Racing, 1-0 the final word against Atlanta in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Racing lose Juan Albertinazzi

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Francisco Monticelli 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.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Brian Olivera

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief

30 Edition

The Racing Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Brian Olivera keeps Racing in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Facundo Juárez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Ignacio Valsangiácomo out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Ignacio Valsangiácomo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Boardroom

Wages eat 265% of everything Racing earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Match

Racing find a way past Güemes

Güemes made Racing work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Santiago Rinaudo 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

28 Edition

The Racing Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Matías Machado hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Match

4 matches without a win for Racing

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Racing are no longer polite ones.

Market

Chapa comes home

The shirt still fits. Chapa is back at Racing, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Daniel Ojeda is a Racing player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Emiliano García comes home

The shirt still fits. Emiliano García is back at Racing, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Brian Olivera

“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

9 Edition

The Racing Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Matías Machado asks to leave Racing

“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.

Squad

Brian Olivera keeps Racing in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Racing share the spoils with Los Andes

A 1-1 draw with Los Andes leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Luciano Viano 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.

Squad

Sergio González knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Racing, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Alejo Ross makes his debut at 21

At 21 years old, Alejo Ross became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

In brief

8 Edition

The Racing Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Raúl Chamorro asks to leave Racing

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Racing against Atlanta

1-2 to Atlanta, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Alejandro Rébola

“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

6 Edition

The Racing Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Facundo Taborda hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Racing get the job done against Tristán Suárez

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

Boardroom

Wages eat 744% of everything Racing earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Tomás Kummer 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.

Squad

Brian Olivera lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Squad

Ricardo Centurión knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Racing, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

4 Edition

The Racing Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Brian Olivera decides it from twelve yards

3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Racing march on in the cup

Vélez are out and Racing go through, 0-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market

Martín Albarracín hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Racing get the job done against Madryn

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Alejandro Rébola

“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.

Squad

Lucas Piedrabuena out for 35 days

The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Lucas Piedrabuena, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief