Emiliano Bértoli

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23 Sep 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Emiliano Bértoli

33 Edition

The Patronato Chronicle

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Franco Rivasseau hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Patronato can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Facundo Heredia beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Emiliano Bértoli: 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.” Patronato have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout

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Squad

A falling-out at Patronato

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

Squad

Words at Patronato training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Salas 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 ratings

One of those days for Renzo Reynaga

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Patronato refuse to lose to Racing

A point taken on 89 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Player ratings

Santino Bizai's mistake decides it

Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Patronato needed to.

In brief

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11 Edition

The Patronato Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Patronato

Gabriel Díaz 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.

Squad

Words at Patronato training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Pablo Barinaga 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.

Market

One of our own: Juan Martín Lucero joins the Patronato first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Martín Lucero is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Patronato

20 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.

The dugout

Juan Pablo Barinaga knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Patronato, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Emiliano Bértoli

“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.

In brief