It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rentistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rentistas can pretend not to have heard.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Rentistas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Joel Poiso 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rentistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It needed Luciano Inverso to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Central Espanol, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rentistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Marked 9.56 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Juan Pablo Plada. 2‑1 against Atenas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Carlos Techera knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Rentistas, and 3 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Joel Poiso’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Rentistas will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.