Ricky

Attacking Midfielder (L) - River Plate U18
22 Apr 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ricky

132 Edition

The River Plate Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Both of them Agustín Ruberto's — 8.71

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.71, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Bruno Guimarães stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bruno Guimarães and River Plate agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

River Plate say no — this time

The offer from Mallorca for Tobías Andrada 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.

Match

Another one collected away from home

5 on the bounce on the road for River Plate. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad

Words at River Plate training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Levi Colwill 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.

Boardroom

7 academy players handed senior numbers at River Plate

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

The terraces

One of their own: Agustín Ruberto

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Maximiliano Salas beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Juan Martín Ríos steps up from the River Plate academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Martín Ríos 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