Lucas Costa

Central Defender - Boston River
31 Dec 2028
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Marked for Lucas Costa

123 Edition

The Boston River Gazette

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match28 Nov 2028

Joaquín Ardaiz lights up a European night for Boston River

2‑1 against Colo-Colo, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Joaquín Ardaiz was at the centre of the description.

Player ratings4 Dec 2028

Joaquín Ardaiz scores twice — 8.67

Two goals and a mark of 8.67 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad4 Dec 2028

A one-man rearguard from Santiago Silva

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market4 Dec 2028

Emiliano Arrieta attracts admirers

The name of Emiliano Arrieta has come up in conversations Boston River were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets4 Dec 2028

São Paulo tell Boston River: Erik Prekop is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom4 Dec 2028

$3.1M on the table at Boston River

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Squad4 Dec 2028

Lucas Costa 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 Boston River this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets4 Dec 2028

Boston River ask about Elías Torres

A loan enquiry to Racing Club: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets4 Dec 2028

Boston River try to borrow Miguel Merentiel

Boca Juniors have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

  • Transfer targets A loan move for Baltasar Rodríguez is in the works
  • The dugout The team sheet said everything about Leo Suárez
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
Back issues
105 Edition

The Boston River Gazette

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad31 Jul 2028

Santiago Silva keeps Boston River in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market31 Jul 2028

Federico Dafonte is on his way

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

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Luis Miguel Ángulo turns down Boston River

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Talleres keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Boston River

Agustín Amado 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.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Door shut on Kevin López

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

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

The window shuts on the Nicolás Sosa deal

Boston River ran out of time with Wanderers. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Match29 Jul 2028

Montevideo City Torque snatch it back from Boston River

A goal on 90 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Match29 Jul 2028

Honours even between Boston River and Montevideo City Torque

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Federico Dafonte 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.

In brief

102 Edition

The Boston River Gazette

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market10 Jul 2028

The unthinkable, invoiced: Emiliano Gómez sold

Defensor Sporting arrived with $7.1M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

Player ratings10 Jul 2028

Both of them Alexander González's — 8.41

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.41, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The terraces10 Jul 2028

A $7.1M sale, and a town that did not want it

Emiliano Gómez has gone, the accounts have $7.1M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market10 Jul 2028

Kevin Sotto puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Boston River, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market10 Jul 2028

Only the photograph left for Kevin Sotto

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kevin Sotto will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Boston River the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad10 Jul 2028

Benjamín Villarruel gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Benjamín Villarruel has just signed for Boston River, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets10 Jul 2028

Boston River rebuffed over Alex Servián

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

Match8 Jul 2028

Boston River get the job done against Progreso

A 3‑1 win over Progreso, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings10 Jul 2028

Baltasar Barcia was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.28. 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