Ian Ortega

Right Midfielder - Sportivo Luqueno
6 May 2028
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The Sportivo Luqueno Gazette

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Feb 2028

Gonzalo Torres damages knee ligaments — 83 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 83 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.

Market14 Feb 2028

Alexis Villalba puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sportivo Luqueno, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad14 Feb 2028

A fracture rules Tomás Palleres out for 66 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sportivo Luqueno will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad14 Feb 2028

A falling-out at Sportivo Luqueno

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

The terraces14 Feb 2028

Sportivo Luqueno supporters have found a favourite in Ricardo Marecos

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ricardo Marecos 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.

Match12 Feb 2028

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Sportivo Luqueno. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match12 Feb 2028

Ricardo Marecos sends Sportivo Luqueno past Libertad

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ricardo Marecos’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sportivo Luqueno.

The dugout14 Feb 2028

The manager has not finished forgetting Santiago Vera's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Player ratings14 Feb 2028

Nobody on the pitch touched Ricardo Marecos

7.66, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sportivo Luqueno had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

  • Squad Ian Ortega signs on for more
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Alfredo Aguilar
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
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49 Edition

The Tristán Suárez Courier

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market5 Jul 2027

Nicolás Henry has said yes to Defensores

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Tristán Suárez have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market5 Jul 2027

Nicolás Fernández puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tristán Suárez, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market5 Jul 2027

Tristán Suárez say no — this time

The offer from O'Higgins for Martín Álvarez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market5 Jul 2027

Tristán Suárez may not be able to give Marcos Enrique what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Marcos Enrique wants continental football; whether Tristán Suárez can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match3 Jul 2027

A bad afternoon for Tristán Suárez against Madryn

2‑3 to Madryn, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad5 Jul 2027

A row about effort at Tristán Suárez

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

The dugout5 Jul 2027

No hiding place for Nicolás Fernández

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Fernández, and the manager let it.

The dugout5 Jul 2027

Alejandro Molina is still paying for one afternoon at Tristán Suárez

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout5 Jul 2027

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 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Iván Bruno to a room that had heard them before.

In brief