The Olimpia Courier
Market12 Jul 2027
Gabriel Ávalos agrees terms with Cerro Porteno
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Olimpia people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market12 Jul 2027
Abel Amaya asks to leave Olimpia
“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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Olimpia turn down Cerro Porteno for Bryan Bentaberry
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Olimpia
Gastón Olveira and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Júnior Gamarra for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Olimpia will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Richard Sánchez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Derlis Gonzalez's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at Olimpia
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Loan watch12 Jul 2027
César Miño wants to come home
“I did not go to FH to sit and watch. I want to come back to Olimpia and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 20 matches say the rest.
In brief
- The dugout Iván Leguizamón gets picked when it counts
- Market Junior Barreto is free to find somewhere else
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Marcos Gómez’s exile