Duván Zárate

Attacking Midfielder (C) - River Plate
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Marked for Duván Zárate

46 Edition

The River Plate Gazette

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match14 Jun 2027

River Plate are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 27 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match12 Jun 2027

No end in sight to River Plate's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at River Plate has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout14 Jun 2027

Francisco Triver keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” River Plate may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market14 Jun 2027

Kevin Mosquera asks to leave River Plate

“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.

Boardroom14 Jun 2027

River Plate go back to the board over Axel Méndez

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $111.2K — a club that wants Axel Méndez enough to be asked twice.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at River Plate

Matías González 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.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

River Plate make their move for Axel Méndez

$92.0K on the table at Nacional. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

River Plate rebuffed over Maximiliano Alanís

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atlético Tucumán have kept their man, and River Plate go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings14 Jun 2027

Felipe Chiappini was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

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41 Edition

The River Plate Gazette

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match5 May 2027

River Plate march on in the cup

Atenas are out and River Plate go through, 3‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings10 May 2027

Agustín Alaniz scores twice — 8.81

Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings10 May 2027

Duván Zárate, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.24

A mark of 8.24 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout10 May 2027

Diego Sánchez: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” River Plate have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad10 May 2027

A falling-out at River Plate

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

The terraces10 May 2027

River Plate supporters have found a favourite in Rodrigo Hernández

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Rodrigo Hernández has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad10 May 2027

Words at River Plate training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Romero 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.

Player ratings10 May 2027

A masterclass from Rodrigo Hernández

Marked 8.01 — 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.

Match5 May 2027

Duván Zárate answers Atenas immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Duván Zárate had River Plate level again within 4 minutes, and Atenas never got to play with a lead at all.

In brief

28 Edition

The River Plate Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Feb 2027

Santiago Romero damages knee ligaments — 40 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 40 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.

Squad8 Feb 2027

70 days out for Yonatan Irrazábal after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. River Plate will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad8 Feb 2027

A move Duván Zárate would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Duván Zárate is living that version at River Plate, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad8 Feb 2027

A falling-out at River Plate

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

Market8 Feb 2027

River Plate sign Duván Zárate, one for the future

Duván Zárate is 19, and River Plate have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Inti López knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Inti López trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief