Zorro

Left Midfielder - Deportivo Riestra U20
9 Nov 2030
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Marked for Zorro

185 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces11 Feb 2030

Supporters organise against the Deportivo Riestra board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad11 Feb 2030

24 days out for Ignacio Arce after a fracture

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

Squad11 Feb 2030

The knee: Zorro out for 19 days

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

Match9 Feb 2030

No mercy from Deportivo Riestra

Almagro will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Deportivo Riestra were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Market11 Feb 2030

Iván Fernández is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportivo Riestra is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market11 Feb 2030

Rodrigo Stocco hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Riestra can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom11 Feb 2030

Rodrigo Peralta has agreed to leave Deportivo Riestra for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Boardroom11 Feb 2030

Still nobody in the Deportivo Riestra dugout

10 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Squad11 Feb 2030

Iván Fernández 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.

In brief

Back issues
184 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

4 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom4 Feb 2030

Raúl Gómez is out at Deportivo Riestra

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Match2 Feb 2030

At last: Deportivo Riestra win one

23 matches without a win, and then this, against Colegiales. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad4 Feb 2030

31 days out for Ignacio Arce after a fracture

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

Squad4 Feb 2030

Zorro damages knee ligaments — 26 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom4 Feb 2030

Mario Romano minds the shop at Deportivo Riestra

“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Mario Romano recited it perfectly.

Market4 Feb 2030

Ezequiel Cerutti hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Riestra can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings4 Feb 2030

Age has not caught Pablo Monje yet — 7.89

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.89 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

The dugout4 Feb 2030

Bautista Peres: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Deportivo Riestra have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom4 Feb 2030

Graduation day at Deportivo Riestra

7 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.

In brief

183 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

28 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Jan 2030

Ignacio Arce breaks a bone — 39 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad28 Jan 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Zorro

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

Boardroom28 Jan 2030

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Deportivo Riestra

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

Market28 Jan 2030

Nicolás Molina 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 Deportivo Riestra, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad28 Jan 2030

A falling-out at Deportivo Riestra

Alan Brítez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout28 Jan 2030

No hiding place for Alan Brítez

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

Squad28 Jan 2030

Words at Deportivo Riestra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Jara 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.

The dugout28 Jan 2030

Omar Bautista Gerez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportivo Riestra will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout28 Jan 2030

Lautaro García knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lautaro García trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

182 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

21 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad21 Jan 2030

46 days out for Ignacio Arce after a fracture

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

Squad21 Jan 2030

Zorro damages knee ligaments — 41 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 41 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market21 Jan 2030

Máximo Rodríguez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Riestra can pretend not to have heard.

Squad21 Jan 2030

Words at Deportivo Riestra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Fernández 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.

Transfer targets21 Jan 2030

Tigre tell Deportivo Riestra: Adam Bareiro 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.

Squad21 Jan 2030

A falling-out at Deportivo Riestra

Omar Bautista Gerez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout21 Jan 2030

No hiding place for Thiago Ferraro

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

Market21 Jan 2030

The Pedro Ramírez question follows Deportivo Riestra around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Pedro Ramírez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout21 Jan 2030

Alan Brítez knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alan Brítez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

181 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

14 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces14 Jan 2030

The mood at Deportivo Riestra 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.

Squad14 Jan 2030

Ignacio Arce breaks a bone — 53 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad14 Jan 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Zorro

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

Market14 Jan 2030

Joaquín Carrizo’s move to Estudiantes falls through

The deal that would have taken Joaquín Carrizo to Estudiantes has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Deportivo Riestra with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad14 Jan 2030

Iván Fernández 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 targets14 Jan 2030

Racing Club tell Deportivo Riestra: Ignacio Lago 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.

The dugout14 Jan 2030

No hiding place for Ignacio Arce

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

Squad14 Jan 2030

Words exchanged at Deportivo Riestra

Omar Bautista Gerez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market14 Jan 2030

The Antony Alonso talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Deportivo Riestra know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief