The Oriental Sentinel
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Nicolás Kozlovsky out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Oriental will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Enzo Vlaeminch 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 Oriental this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Gonzalo Barrios joins the Oriental first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gonzalo Barrios is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Ignacio Valverde steps up from the Oriental academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ignacio Valverde has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
The ambition of Franco González outgrows Oriental early
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Oriental buy the years ahead of Franco González
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Franco González signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Franco González and Oriental agree another 3 years.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Christian Franco has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Oriental will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes Nahuel Gómez a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Oriental. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Squad Nahuel Soria has company in his position
- The dugout The manager comes out for Gabriel Chocobar