The Deportivo Riestra Courier
Squad14 Jan 2030
D'Hidier Pereira damages knee ligaments — 87 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 87 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.
Squad14 Jan 2030
127 days out for Luis Felipe after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportivo Riestra will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Words exchanged at Deportivo Riestra
Cristian Paz 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.
Transfer targets14 Jan 2030
Platense tell Deportivo Riestra: Tito is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Cristian Caicedo 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.
The dugout14 Jan 2030
The manager makes an example of Fabricio Ventresca
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout14 Jan 2030
Facundo Miño has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Riestra will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market14 Jan 2030
The Pedro Ramírez story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Pedro Ramírez signs something — a contract at Deportivo Riestra or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout14 Jan 2030
Lucio Pérez knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lucio Pérez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Iván López a promise
- Market Bruno Suárez leaves for nothing
- Market The clock does Brandon Rocha’s negotiating for him