Mirko Bruno

Central Defender - River Plate
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Marked for Mirko Bruno

442 Edition

The River Plate Sentinel

15 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Jan 2035

Zakaria Aboukhlal 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 River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market15 Jan 2035

Vasco has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around River Plate they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad15 Jan 2035

Words at River Plate training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Rivero is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad15 Jan 2035

A move Matías Bergara would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Matías Bergara is living that version at River Plate, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad15 Jan 2035

The manager makes an example of Mirko Bruno

“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.

Market15 Jan 2035

River Plate pick up Matías Bergara for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Matías Bergara arrives at River Plate with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

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432 Edition

The River Plate Sentinel

6 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings6 Nov 2034

Nobody could get near Tiago Serrago

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match1 Nov 2034

River Plate are through

1‑1 settles it, and a club that spent a season earning the right to play these games has won one of them. Somebody else's season ended tonight, which is the part nobody mentions in the celebrations.

Squad6 Nov 2034

A fracture rules Bautista Dadín out for 46 days

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

Squad6 Nov 2034

Gentian Selmani decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match6 Nov 2034

River Plate refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 27 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Match1 Nov 2034

Still nobody has beaten River Plate

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Mirko Bruno: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” River Plate have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market6 Nov 2034

Zakaria Aboukhlal wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at River Plate hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Tempers go at River Plate

Zakaria Aboukhlal 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.

In brief

424 Edition

The River Plate Sentinel

11 Sep 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match11 Sep 2034

River Plate are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 16 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Player ratings11 Sep 2034

Age has not caught Zakaria Aboukhlal yet — 8.31

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.31 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market11 Sep 2034

Ian Subiabre wants more than River Plate are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Player ratings11 Sep 2034

Santiago Lencina runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad11 Sep 2034

Tempers go at River Plate

Dominik Takáč 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.

Market11 Sep 2034

Only the photograph left for Enry Hernández

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Enry Hernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around River Plate the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad11 Sep 2034

Lautaro Rivero 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.

Squad11 Sep 2034

Mirko Bruno gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mirko Bruno has just signed for River Plate, and for once the answer mattered.

Match9 Sep 2034

Whatever happens, River Plate do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

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