Gerónimo Blanco

Striker - Rocha
1 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Gerónimo Blanco

22 Edition

The Rocha Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

$110.0K — a new record at Rocha

No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Gerónimo Blanco

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Rocha have done the hard part with River Plate, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Rocha

Lukas König and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

$110.0K for Federico Chaparro, and Rocha supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Federico Chaparro from Central Espanol for $110.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

Words at Rocha training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrique Etcheverry 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.

Squad

The formation has left Federico Chaparro behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Rocha will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Sud America Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Adrián Acevedo damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Sud America

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

The dugout

Joaquín Etcheverry 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

Tempers go at Sud America

Franco Risso 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.

Transfer targets

Sud America try to borrow Gerónimo Blanco

River Plate have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Pablo Fernández has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sud America 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.

In brief