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138 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 Mar 2029

The knee: Mauro Smarra out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Riestra lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market19 Mar 2029

Tobías Armas hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Riestra can pretend not to have heard.

Match17 Mar 2029

Whatever happens, Deportivo Riestra do not lose

8 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.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Mariano Bracamonte 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 Deportivo Riestra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Mar 2029

A row about effort at Deportivo Riestra

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

The dugout19 Mar 2029

Pedro Ramírez gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pedro Ramírez is on it.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

Julián Miranda on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Julián Miranda after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Looking ahead19 Mar 2029

The leaders are next for Deportivo Riestra

Lanús top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

No hiding place for Leonel Juárez

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

In brief

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137 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Mar 2029

The knee: Mauro Smarra out for 30 days

30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Riestra lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

Leonel Juárez: 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.” Deportivo Riestra have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match10 Mar 2029

Still nobody has beaten Deportivo Riestra

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad12 Mar 2029

A falling-out at Deportivo Riestra

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

Player ratings12 Mar 2029

Gabriel Obredor was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings12 Mar 2029

The afternoon belonged to Pedro Ramírez

A mark of 7.42, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Market12 Mar 2029

Deportivo Riestra and Nicolás Sansotre are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Julián Miranda chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

The form table has caught Genaro Barrionuevo

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

102 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Jul 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tobías Armas

127 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Riestra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market10 Jul 2028

Gabriel Obredor asks to leave Deportivo Riestra

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad10 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Deportivo Riestra

Cristian Paz 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.

Market10 Jul 2028

As if he never left: Luciano González returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Luciano González is a Deportivo Riestra player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad10 Jul 2028

Leonel Juárez gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Leonel Juárez has just signed for Deportivo Riestra, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom10 Jul 2028

Deportivo Riestra beat the market to Omar Bautista Gerez from Central Córdoba SdE

Central Córdoba SdE will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Omar Bautista Gerez has pre-agreed a move to Deportivo Riestra, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad10 Jul 2028

Leonel Juárez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Leonel Juárez and Deportivo Riestra agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout10 Jul 2028

When it matters, Pedro Ramírez plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market10 Jul 2028

Deportivo Riestra and Nicolás Sansotre are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief