Leonel Bucca

Defensive Midfielder - Independiente Rivadavia
29 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Leonel Bucca

25 Edition

The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Gastón Unrein due for a Independiente Rivadavia medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Gonzalo Ríos 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 Independiente Rivadavia

Ezequiel Bonifacio 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

No hiding place for Victorio Ramis

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Victorio Ramis, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Fabrizio Sartori 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 Independiente Rivadavia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

When it matters, Diego Crego plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Independiente Rivadavia add cover with Sebastián Miño

It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Sebastián Miño is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.

The dugout

A door opens for Leonel Bucca

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

Competition arrives for Ramiro Macagno

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Independiente Rivadavia have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Leonel Bucca: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Independiente Rivadavia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Independiente Rivadavia ask about Lautaro Blanco

A loan enquiry to Boca Juniors: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Evertton Araújo is in the works

Independiente Rivadavia have made the call to Flamengo. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Words exchanged at Independiente Rivadavia

Luciano Suárez 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 Independiente Rivadavia

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

Market

The shop window has Fabrizio Sartori in it

Independiente Rivadavia have let the market know Fabrizio Sartori can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

Joaquín Ibáñez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Independiente Rivadavia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Álex Arce has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Álex Arce has written the date down.

Squad

“I want to play”: Nicolás Bolcato speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief

16 Edition

The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Diego Crego is on his way

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

Squad

Tempers go at Independiente Rivadavia

Iván Villalba 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.

Squad

Gonzalo Ríos 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.

Market

No place for Leonel Bucca in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Leonel Bucca has his answer from Independiente Rivadavia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Independiente Rivadavia

Something was said to Tomás Bottari and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Álex Arce 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.

The dugout

Enzo Rivamar 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 dugout

Luis Ángel Díaz gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Luis Ángel Díaz is on it.

Market

The Nicolás Bolcato talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Independiente Rivadavia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief