The Sanluqueño Courier
Squad30 Apr 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alejandro Vera
71 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sanluqueño lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom30 Apr 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at Sanluqueño
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Sanluqueño is running low.
Market30 Apr 2029
Alberto Stegman 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 The request is on a desk at Sanluqueño, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match28 Apr 2029
The wait goes on for Sanluqueño
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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at Sanluqueño
Iván Franco 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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
A row about effort at Sanluqueño
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marc-Aurel Koffi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces30 Apr 2029
The crowd has taken to Mirko Bentiboglio
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match28 Apr 2029
A bad afternoon for Sanluqueño against Sevilla Atlético
0‑1 to Sevilla Atlético, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Sanluqueño lose Nil Castillo
35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- The dugout Nahuel Arias gets it from the manager
- The dugout Sebastián Bedoya left out for the big one
- The dugout The manager’s verdict