The Temperley Courier
Squad7 Feb 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Elías Bogado
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Temperley lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match5 Feb 2028
The wait goes on for Temperley
8 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Franco Benítez 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 Temperley can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces7 Feb 2028
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 35 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Nicolás Demartini 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 Temperley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Temperley
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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Temperley training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Díaz 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Luciano Nieto gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Feb 2028
Cobra steps up from the Temperley academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cobra 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
- Market Nicolás Otero steps up from the Temperley academy
- Market Miguel Ángel Benítez steps up from the Temperley academy
- Match San Martín SJ take the points off Temperley