Marked for Facundo Colidio
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match9 Jun 2027
A 1‑0 win over San Miguel, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad14 Jun 2027
1 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.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match9 Jun 2027
Still nobody has beaten River Plate
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Mauro Arambarri 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The fee is $260.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Morón drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
A performance of 8.88 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market14 Jun 2027
Tomás Parmo is 19, and River Plate have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Jun 2027
The chase for Franco Petroli ended with $3.2M changing hands and Lanús out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Kendry Páez is the real thing at 20
A season average of 7.13 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. River Plate know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at River Plate, and 3 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
Market7 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. River Plate have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
The goals keep arriving from Flabián Londoño’s exile
10 goals in 18 games at Deportivo La Guaira — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at River Plate updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Colidio, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match27 Feb 2027
No end in sight to River Plate's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at River Plate has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Mauro Arambarri 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 ratings1 Mar 2027
A performance of 8.89 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Marcos Acuña
“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.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I watch every River Plate game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ceará runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match27 Feb 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The club’s rules catch up with Mauro Arambarri
A breach, a hearing, a week’s wages: River Plate handled it by the book and briefed nobody, which is how you can tell they mean it. The dressing room noticed both halves.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match6 Feb 2027
Still nobody has beaten River Plate
The unbeaten run reaches 19. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market8 Feb 2027
As if he never left: Fernando Luna returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Fernando Luna is a River Plate player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market8 Feb 2027
Chori comes home
The shirt still fits. Chori is back at River Plate, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market8 Feb 2027
The shirt still fits. Benjamín Ríos is back at River Plate, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Marked 8.36 — 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match23 Nov 2026
22 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” River Plate may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Nov 2026
At 19, Kendry Páez is already the best thing here
An average of 7.13 in a first team he is several years too young for. River Plate have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The sale went through, the money came with it, and everything anybody had planned for next season is now provisional. New owners always arrive promising patience.
Match28 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, River Plate do not lose
17 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.
Match28 Oct 2026
A 4‑3 win over Barracas Central, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 9.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.45 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.