The Sportivo Ameliano Gazette
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Luis Olmedo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A brace, and Raúl Cabral takes the afternoon — 7.96
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Raúl Cabral provided it, and the 7.96 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Facundo Melivilo stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Facundo Melivilo and Sportivo Ameliano agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Sportivo Ameliano count the cost of losing Fernando Melgarejo
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Facundo Melivilo 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Sportivo Ameliano find a way past Sportivo Carapegua
Sportivo Carapegua made Sportivo Ameliano work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
Sportivo Ameliano supporters have found a favourite in Raúl Cabral
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Raúl Cabral has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Sportivo Ameliano
Derlis Benítez 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Fernando Alderete, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
In brief
- The dugout Luis Olmedo gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Luis Ayala gets it from the manager
- The dugout No place in the plan for Facundo Melivilo