The Rampla Juniors Herald
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ramiro Bentancur damages knee ligaments — 143 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 143 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Rampla Juniors
Yamil García and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The decline has begun for Bruno Bianchi
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Rampla Juniors is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nicolás Royón 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Federico Cristóforo knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Federico Cristóforo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Oct 2026
Rampla Juniors bring in an old head
Paulo Lima is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- The dugout Juan Raffaelli has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Brian Mancini placed on the list