Pablo Rivera

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Defensores
12 Aug 2029
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110 Edition

The Defensores Post

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Sep 2028

The knee: Leonardo Landriel out for 67 days

67 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Defensores lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market4 Sep 2028

Enzo González has said yes to Burgos

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Defensores have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Anthony Núñez keeps Defensores in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market4 Sep 2028

FAC Wien join the queue for Nicolás Benegas

Add another name to the list: FAC Wien have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Nicolás Benegas. The answer from Defensores has not changed — yet.

Market4 Sep 2028

Defensores say no — this time

The offer from Aktobe for Franco Sassone was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market4 Sep 2028

Pablo Rivera asks to leave Defensores

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout4 Sep 2028

No hiding place for Leonardo Landriel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonardo Landriel, and the manager let it.

Match2 Sep 2028

Defensores come up short against Ferrocarril Midland

Ferrocarril Midland left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Words at Defensores training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Magallanes 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.

In brief

  • Squad Anthony Núñez in a row with a teammate
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Franco Sassone has become a man the manager trusts
Back issues
76 Edition

The Defensores Post

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces10 Jan 2028

The mood at Defensores has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad10 Jan 2028

93 days out for Leonardo Landriel after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Defensores will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom10 Jan 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Defensores

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market10 Jan 2028

Enzo González asks to leave Defensores

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Defensores

Lautaro Daus 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.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Enzo González 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.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Ferro Carril Oeste tell Defensores: Leonel Szalich 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.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Pablo Rivera signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pablo Rivera commits to Defensores for another 3 years.

The dugout10 Jan 2028

Lautaro Daus asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

75 Edition

The Defensores Post

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 Jan 2028

It is over: Defensores are relegated

The arithmetic ran out, and everybody could see it coming from a distance. The hard summer starts now, and next season's fixtures will be full of unfamiliar names.

Squad3 Jan 2028

A fracture rules Leonardo Landriel out for 100 days

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

Boardroom3 Jan 2028

Defensores spell it out for Gabriel Morales

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Gabriel Morales has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom3 Jan 2028

Crisis meeting at Defensores

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Market3 Jan 2028

Bautista González 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 Defensores, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad3 Jan 2028

A row about effort at Defensores

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Enzo González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets3 Jan 2028

Door shut on Ángel Castañares

Defensores asked and Gimnasia y Esgrima said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad3 Jan 2028

Nicolás Borsotti 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 Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market3 Jan 2028

Nicolás Benegas comes back from a loan that worked

31 appearances and 9 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

In brief