Juan Suárez

Left Forward - Patronato
29 May 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Juan Suárez

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The Patronato Chronicle

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Sebastián Miño

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Benjamín Bravo asks to leave Patronato

“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.

Match

The wait goes on for Patronato

4 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Patronato

Gabriel Díaz 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.

Player ratings

Facundo Heredia runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Patronato come up short against Boca Juniors

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Enzo Galli

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Federico Campos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Federico Campos and Patronato agree another 3 years.

Player ratings

Juan Suárez never got going

5.26 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

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The Patronato Chronicle

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Santiago Bellatti is on his way

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

Squad

Tempers go at Patronato

Gabriel Díaz 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Patronato against Unión de Santa Fe

0‑2 to Unión de Santa Fe, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Renzo Reynaga

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Iván Chaves

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Iván Chaves lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Squad

Juan Suárez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Suárez and Patronato agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Santino Bizai

Marked 5.59, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

Player ratings

Ignacio Giacinti never got going

5.68 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief