Mariano Bracamonte

Central Midfielder - Deportivo Riestra
18 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mariano Bracamonte

11 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Mariano Bracamonte

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mariano Bracamonte will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportivo Riestra the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

Nicolás Sansotre says Deportivo Riestra 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.

Squad

Cristian Paz 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 Deportivo Riestra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ignacio 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.

Match

Instituto take the points off Deportivo Riestra

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Pablo Quiroga to a room that had heard them before.

Market

Rodrigo Sayavedra told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Rodrigo Sayavedra has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Deportivo Riestra.

The dugout

Antony Alonso has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportivo Riestra 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.

Market

Mariano Bracamonte runs his contract down

3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Deportivo Riestra money.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mariano Bracamonte is on his way

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

Squad

35 days out for Santino Coppola after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportivo Riestra will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Rodrigo Sayavedra asks to leave Deportivo Riestra

“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

A one-man rearguard from Ignacio Arce

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportivo Riestra

Mariano Bracamonte 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.

Match

Deportivo Riestra are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

Lorenzo Corral’s goal not enough for Deportivo Riestra

Lorenzo Corral scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Independiente, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

Nicolás Benegas did the work nobody counts — 6.78

11 combined actions and 6.78. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

Words at Deportivo Riestra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Ramírez 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Fabricio Ventresca sends Deportivo Riestra through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Fabricio Ventresca obliged against Almagro. 3‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Deportivo Riestra.

Squad

Mateo Straffurini breaks a bone — 37 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Fabricio Ventresca, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.45

A mark of 8.45 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Yeison Murillo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Deportivo Riestra, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Deportivo Riestra 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.

Boardroom

Deportivo Riestra to lose Mariano Bracamonte for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mariano Bracamonte has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportivo Riestra

Cristian Paz 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

Words at Deportivo Riestra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Ramírez 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Fabricio Ventresca

At 21 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Mariano Bracamonte

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mariano Bracamonte will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportivo Riestra the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Cristian Paz 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 Deportivo Riestra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Pedro Ramírez 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mariano Bracamonte

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

Match

Deportivo Riestra find a way past Talleres

Talleres made Deportivo Riestra work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Nicolás Benegas takes the honours

Marked 7.83 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Deportivo Riestra had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Pablo Quiroga has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Pablo Quiroga on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Player ratings

Alexander Díaz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 13. 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.

The dugout

Antony Alonso does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief