The Oriental Sentinel
Squad14 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Ángelo Gabrielli out for 52 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Oriental will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Nahuel Soria scores twice — 8.79
Two goals and a mark of 8.79 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Feb 2028
Nicolás Rodríguez 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 Oriental can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Tomás Hernández says Oriental went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market14 Feb 2028
Thiago Santi is a Oriental 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Enzo Vlaeminch 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 Oriental this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Oriental
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
Door shut on Bruno Barja
Oriental asked and Boston River said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Feb 2028
Jonathan Garcia steps up from the Oriental academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonathan Garcia 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 Gabriel Gomez steps up from the Oriental academy
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Emiliano Bermúdez
- Player ratings Gabriel Chocobar ran the middle of the pitch — 7.40