The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette
Market14 Aug 2028
Only the photograph left for Federico Ortiz
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Federico Ortiz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Independiente Rivadavia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Iván Villalba 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 Independiente Rivadavia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Matías Fernández 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Sheyko Studer
“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.
Match12 Aug 2028
Independiente Rivadavia get the job done against Aldosivi
A 2‑0 win over Aldosivi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
One of those days for Matías Fernández
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.76, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
A masterclass from Stefano Moreyra
Marked 8.43 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Nothing got past José Florentín
18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“I want to play”: Tomás Attis 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
- Player ratings Nothing got past Sheyko Studer
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Tomás Bottari
- Market The shop window has Pedro Dacrema in it