The Patronato Chronicle
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Juan Pablo Barinaga runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Patronato
6 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Patronato may not be able to give Maximiliano Rueda what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Maximiliano Rueda wants continental football; whether Patronato can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Juan Pablo Barinaga 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 Patronato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Patronato
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Benicio Pereyra steps up from the Patronato academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benicio Pereyra 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
Patronato promote Tomás Vidal from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tomás Vidal has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
Patronato promote Miguel Ángel Lucero from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Ángel Lucero has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Patronato training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Moreyra 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 The manager makes an example of Facundo Heredia
- Loan watch Augusto Picco has seen enough of Tigre
- Squad Nestor Yevcin dropped after a run of poor form