The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette
Squad1 Jan 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Martín Busto
69 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independiente Rivadavia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Matías Fernández is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Independiente Rivadavia will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market1 Jan 2029
Jerónimo Gutiérrez asks to leave Independiente Rivadavia
“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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Marcos Narváez says Independiente Rivadavia went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market1 Jan 2029
Only the photograph left for Federico Ortiz
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Federico Ortiz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Independiente Rivadavia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Independiente Rivadavia
Iván Villalba 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
- Market Mitre are about to pick up the phone
- Market The shop window has Martín Busto in it