Ervin Torres

Defensive Midfielder - Austin FC
12 Aug 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ervin Torres

152 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Bénie Traoré frozen out at Austin FC

This is not rotation. Bénie Traoré has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Austin FC is pretending otherwise.

Market

Nicolás Dubersarsky has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Austin FC can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Match

The wait goes on for Austin FC

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Words exchanged at Austin FC

Chris Brady and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Austin FC

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

Match

The goals have deserted Austin FC

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Austin FC can tell you which week it ends in.

Match

A bad afternoon for Austin FC against San Jose Earthquakes

0‑2 to San Jose Earthquakes, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match

The half-term report on Austin FC

Position 4, 26 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Tim Robinson to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

Back issues
122 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Efrain Morales keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Austin FC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

The dugout

Besard Šabović frozen out at Austin FC

This is not rotation. Besard Šabović has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Austin FC is pretending otherwise.

Squad

A falling-out at Austin FC

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

Squad

Mikkel Desler 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.

Squad

Ervin Torres stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ervin Torres and Austin FC agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

The Chris Brady talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Austin FC know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Mohammed Sofo 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 Mohammed Sofo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The shop window has Besard Šabović in it

Austin FC have let the market know Besard Šabović can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

A door opens for Thiago

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief