The Aldosivi Sentinel
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Aldosivi
14 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Rodrigo Márquez was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 37. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market8 Feb 2027
Néstor Breitenbruch wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Aldosivi
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Elías López 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
3 matches without a goal for Aldosivi
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market8 Feb 2027
Valentín Otero steps up from the Aldosivi academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentín Otero 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Benjamín Cabrera steps up from the Aldosivi academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamín Cabrera 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Ricardo Moretti steps up from the Aldosivi academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ricardo Moretti 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.
In brief
- Squad Leonardo Sigali in a row with a teammate
- The dugout Juan Muñoz: “We have to be better”
- The dugout The form table has caught Ignacio Cuffaro