The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette
Squad24 May 2027
Maximiliano Salas 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 Independiente Rivadavia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
Iván Villalba 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 dugout24 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Victorio Ramis
“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.
The dugout24 May 2027
A promise honoured at Independiente Rivadavia
Something was said to Ezequiel Bonifacio and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout24 May 2027
Joaquín Ibáñez gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Joaquín Ibáñez is on it.
Squad24 May 2027
“I want to play”: Alejo González speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
In brief
- Market The Alex Vigo story refuses to die
- The dugout A door opens for Kevin Vázquez
- Squad Alejo González says his piece
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Tomás Muro at Sportivo Luqueno