The Oriental Sentinel
Squad15 Feb 2027
74 days out for Ángelo Gabrielli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Oriental will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market15 Feb 2027
Nahuel Rodríguez comes home
The shirt still fits. Nahuel Rodríguez is back at Oriental, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Oriental
Gabriel Chocobar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Nahuel Rodríguez arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Nahuel Rodríguez has, at Oriental, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Oriental
4 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Gaston Suarez steps up from the Oriental academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gaston Suarez 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Oriental promote Fernando Alvarez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fernando Alvarez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Miguel Valverde joins the Oriental first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miguel Valverde is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match13 Feb 2027
Oriental find a way past Rampla Juniors
Rampla Juniors made Oriental work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Squad Enzo Vlaeminch falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout No hiding place for Nicolás Rodríguez
- Player ratings Braian Galván runs at them all day