Brian Jimenez

Right Forward - Frontera Rivera U18
16 Dec 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Brian Jimenez

35 Edition

The Frontera Rivera Herald

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Facundo Pereira 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 Frontera Rivera this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Wages eat 103% of everything Frontera Rivera earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Words at Frontera Rivera training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabrizio Montilla 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.

The dugout

Santiago Varela 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.

The dugout

Bruno Rossi gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bruno Rossi is on it.

Market

The shop window has Bruno Rossi in it

Frontera Rivera have let the market know Bruno Rossi can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

Back issues
29 Edition

The Frontera Rivera Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alejandro Rios damages knee ligaments — 35 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 35 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Words exchanged at Frontera Rivera

Facundo Pereira and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Frontera Rivera

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.

Market

One of our own: Brian Jimenez joins the Frontera Rivera first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Brian Jimenez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Frontera Rivera promote Diego Rios from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Rios 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.

Market

Frontera Rivera promote Fernando Morales from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fernando Morales 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.

Market

Frontera Rivera promote Maximiliano Da Silva from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maximiliano Da Silva 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.

The dugout

Facundo Pereira 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.

Player ratings

Ignacio Ratti was the difference for Frontera Rivera

Marked 7.29. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief