The Pastoreo Courier
Squad14 Sep 2026
The knee: Rodrigo Alvarenga out for 14 days
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pastoreo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match12 Sep 2026
Pastoreo taken apart
0‑3 to Independiente CG, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market14 Sep 2026
Luis Gimenez steps up from the Pastoreo academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Gimenez 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at Pastoreo
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Fernando Balbuena left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Luis Martinez
“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.
In brief
- Squad An aura around Arnaldo Zárate
- Squad The shirt is Fulvio Duarte’s
- The dugout No place in the plan for Angel Cardozo
- Squad Fulvio Duarte says his piece