The Patronato Chronicle
Market7 Feb 2028
Tomás Attis 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 The request is on a desk at Patronato, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Feb 2028
No end in sight to Patronato's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Patronato has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Gabriel Díaz 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 Patronato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Feb 2028
Gael Álvarez is a Patronato player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market7 Feb 2028
Franco Godoy comes home
The shirt still fits. Franco Godoy is back at Patronato, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market7 Feb 2028
Federico Bruno comes home
The shirt still fits. Federico Bruno is back at Patronato, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
One of those days for Facundo Heredia
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.64, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
A masterclass from Renzo Reynaga
Marked 8.46 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Fernando Moreyra 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Patronato board go back on their word
- Match Honours even between Patronato and Platense
- Squad Maximiliano Rueda knocks on the manager’s door