Gabriel

Central Midfielder - Retired
17 Aug 2031
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Marked for Gabriel

175 Edition

The Sporting Cristal Herald

3 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Dec 2029

Nicolás Morgantini damages knee ligaments — 83 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 83 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match27 Nov 2029

Sporting Cristal do the business in Europe

4‑2. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Sporting Cristal came through the finding-out well against Guarani.

Match3 Dec 2029

Sporting Cristal up to position 2

51 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

The dugout3 Dec 2029

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Squad3 Dec 2029

Tempers go at Sporting Cristal

Luis Abram 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.

Match27 Nov 2029

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Sporting Cristal and Guarani in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad3 Dec 2029

A move Víctor Rivarola would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Víctor Rivarola is living that version at Sporting Cristal, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match27 Nov 2029

Nobody wins at Sporting Cristal

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad3 Dec 2029

Words at Sporting Cristal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Gómez 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

Back issues
171 Edition

The Sporting Cristal Herald

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Nov 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Morgantini

113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sporting Cristal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market5 Nov 2029

Esteban Obregón 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 Sporting Cristal can pretend not to have heard.

Match5 Nov 2029

Sporting Cristal up to position 2

51 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market5 Nov 2029

Sergio Córdova has one foot out of the door

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

The dugout5 Nov 2029

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Squad5 Nov 2029

Tempers go at Sporting Cristal

Luis Abram 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.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Joao Grimaldo 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 dugout5 Nov 2029

A promise honoured for Marcos Gómez

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Sporting Cristal told Marcos Gómez something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout5 Nov 2029

Imanol González 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 Imanol González is on it.

In brief

167 Edition

The Sporting Cristal Herald

8 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match2 Oct 2029

Boca Juniors take Sporting Cristal apart in Europe

0‑3. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.

Squad8 Oct 2029

Diego Enríquez keeps Sporting Cristal in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad8 Oct 2029

Esteban Obregón is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.66 with 22 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market8 Oct 2029

Esteban Obregón 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 Sporting Cristal, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match8 Oct 2029

Sporting Cristal refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 51 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

The dugout8 Oct 2029

Marco Iacobellis says Sporting Cristal 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.

Market8 Oct 2029

Only the photograph left for Sergio Córdova

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sergio Córdova will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sporting Cristal the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout8 Oct 2029

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Squad8 Oct 2029

Luis Abram signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luis Abram and Sporting Cristal agree another 2 years.

In brief