Noah Lucero

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2 Sep 2038
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The Estudiantes Gazette

21 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Estudiantes's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Estudiantes has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Federico Rossi asks to leave Estudiantes

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nicolás Valdemarín

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Estudiantes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bill 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Estudiantes against Gimnasia y Tiro

0‑1 to Gimnasia y Tiro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Miguel Castillo 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 Estudiantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Noah Lucero signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Noah Lucero commits to Estudiantes for another 3 years.

Squad

Costly mistake from Luis Alberto Rodríguez

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Luis Alberto Rodríguez knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Player ratings

Luis Peralta keeps on missing

Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

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The Estudiantes Gazette

22 Feb 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tobías Ostchega

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

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 34 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Market

Federico Rossi 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 Estudiantes can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nicolás Valdemarín runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Estudiantes come up short against Gimnasia y Tiro

Gimnasia y Tiro left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Bill 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Leonel Herrera

“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

When it matters, Matías Valenti plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Tobías Ostchega talk will not go away

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

In brief

  • Player ratings An afternoon Noah Lucero will want back
  • Boardroom The Estudiantes production line keeps running