Valentino Moretti

Left Forward - Madryn U18
1 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Valentino Moretti

28 Edition

The Madryn Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Estanislao Jara damages knee ligaments — 49 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.

Market

Nicolás Servetto 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 The request is on a desk at Madryn, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Yair Bonnín keeps Madryn in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

The wait goes on for Madryn

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Marcelo Meli 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 Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Madryn may not be able to give Rodrigo Ayala what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Rodrigo Ayala wants continental football; whether Madryn can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Camilo Machado

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

Boardroom

Graduation day at Madryn

5 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.

Squad

Nicolás Barrientos 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.

In brief