Jonathan Olivera

Right Midfielder - Racing U20
2 Feb 2031
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201 Edition

The Racing Sentinel

3 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Jun 2030

Jonathan Olivera damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings3 Jun 2030

A brace, and Assad Al Hamlawi takes the afternoon — 8.97

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Assad Al Hamlawi provided it, and the 8.97 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Defences have started doubling up on Assad Al Hamlawi

17 goals and a season average of 7.38 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match1 Jun 2030

The wait goes on for Racing

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad3 Jun 2030

A falling-out at Racing

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

Match1 Jun 2030

6 goals as Racing and Nacional go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Racing and Nacional, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match1 Jun 2030

Assad Al Hamlawi’s goal not enough for Racing

Assad Al Hamlawi scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Nacional, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Words at Racing training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álex Vázquez 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.

Transfer targets3 Jun 2030

Door shut on Marino Skelin

Racing asked and Istra 1961 said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

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200 Edition

The Racing Sentinel

27 May 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad27 May 2030

Jonathan Olivera damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match25 May 2030

Nowhere to hide for Racing

0‑4 against Progreso, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Player ratings27 May 2030

Esteban da Silva beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad27 May 2030

A fracture rules Juan Pérez out for 19 days

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

Market27 May 2030

Juan Bosca is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Racing is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad27 May 2030

Assad Al Hamlawi 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad27 May 2030

Diego Cheuquepal signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Diego Cheuquepal and Racing agree another 4 years.

The dugout27 May 2030

The manager makes an example of Sebastián da Silva

“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.

Match27 May 2030

Racing at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 9, 18 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

In brief

  • Boardroom Nobody left the Racing dressing room in a hurry
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Guillermo Cotugno dropped after a run of poor form