The Independiente Herald
Squad18 Oct 2027
The knee: Santiago Arias out for 54 days
54 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Independiente lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match18 Oct 2027
Independiente up to position 3
23 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Independiente
Rodrigo Rey and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match16 Oct 2027
Independiente find a way past San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo made Independiente work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Looking ahead18 Oct 2027
Top-of-the-table clash for Independiente
Newell's Old Boys next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Santiago Montiel in the eights
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Independiente count the cost of losing Mirko Díaz
34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Ignacio Díaz signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ignacio Díaz and Independiente agree another 4 years.
Market18 Oct 2027
Hugo Quintana told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Hugo Quintana has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Independiente.
In brief
- The dugout Enzo Suárez: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Luciano Cabral has become a man the manager trusts
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Ignacio Maestro Puch’s exile