Pucho

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Marked for Pucho

422 Edition

The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette

28 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Aug 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Bottari

92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independiente Rivadavia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad28 Aug 2034

A fracture rules Pucho out for 14 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Independiente Rivadavia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad28 Aug 2034

Luis Ángel Díaz 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 Independiente Rivadavia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Aug 2034

The manager makes an example of Iván Villalba

“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.

Match26 Aug 2034

Independiente Rivadavia come up short against Racing Club

Racing Club left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings28 Aug 2034

Nobody could get near Luis Ángel Díaz

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
421 Edition

The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette

21 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad21 Aug 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Bottari

99 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independiente Rivadavia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces21 Aug 2034

Anger at Independiente Rivadavia spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match19 Aug 2034

A hiding for Independiente Rivadavia

Beaten 1‑4 by Rosario Central, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Pucho breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings21 Aug 2034

Nobody could get near Joaquín Ibáñez

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Tempers go at Independiente Rivadavia

Luis Ángel 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.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Alejo Osella 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.

Boardroom21 Aug 2034

Nobody left the Independiente Rivadavia dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market21 Aug 2034

Independiente Rivadavia put Santiago Cena up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Santiago Cena may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

420 Edition

The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette

14 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Aug 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Bottari

106 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independiente Rivadavia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad14 Aug 2034

A fracture rules Pucho out for 30 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Independiente Rivadavia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings14 Aug 2034

Age has not caught Matías Fernández yet — 8.35

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.35 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad14 Aug 2034

Luis Ángel Díaz 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 Independiente Rivadavia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Aug 2034

Words at Independiente Rivadavia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejo Osella 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.

Match12 Aug 2034

Matías Fernández sends Independiente Rivadavia past Quilmes

It finished 3‑1, and it was Matías Fernández’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Independiente Rivadavia.

Player ratings14 Aug 2034

Luis Ángel Díaz was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.33. 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.

Player ratings14 Aug 2034

The cruellest goal, and it is Leonard Costa's

A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Independiente Rivadavia will not try tonight.

Player ratings14 Aug 2034

Joaquín Ibáñez ran the game

Chances created: 6. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.

In brief