Facundo Castro

Striker - Free Agent
7 Jul 2030
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Marked for Facundo Castro

158 Edition

The Alvarado Gazette

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 Aug 2029

Valentino Marino breaks a bone — 25 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market6 Aug 2029

Lautaro Luna 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 The request is on a desk at Alvarado, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match4 Aug 2029

The wait goes on for Alvarado

5 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.

Squad6 Aug 2029

A falling-out at Alvarado

Cristian Gorgerino and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom6 Aug 2029

The owner puts $541.8K into Alvarado

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Transfer targets6 Aug 2029

Door shut on Lautaro Martínez

Alvarado asked and Brown de Adrogué said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Alvarado lose Facundo Castro

24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout6 Aug 2029

Ivan Sanchez 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 dugout6 Aug 2029

Ignacio Bednarek is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

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The Alvarado Gazette

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match7 Apr 2029

The wait goes on for Alvarado

9 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.

Match7 Apr 2029

The goals have deserted Alvarado

7 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Alvarado can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad9 Apr 2029

A falling-out at Alvarado

Cristian Gorgerino and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Words at Alvarado training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Ostachi 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.

Boardroom9 Apr 2029

118% of the income goes out in wages at Alvarado

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Bruno Cabrera was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Alvarado dressing room was either.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

Franco Pinoni knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Alvarado, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

Lautaro Núñez 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 Lautaro Núñez is on it.

Player ratings9 Apr 2029

Nobody could get near Mateo Ostachi

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

129 Edition

The Alvarado Gazette

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom15 Jan 2029

Pressure builds in the Alvarado boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market15 Jan 2029

Facundo Castro 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 Alvarado, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad15 Jan 2029

A falling-out at Alvarado

Cristian Gorgerino and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market15 Jan 2029

Bhayangkara Presisi watching Rodrigo Fernández

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Alvarado have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets15 Jan 2029

Sacachispas tell Alvarado: Jerónimo Buosi 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.

Squad15 Jan 2029

Mateo Ostachi 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.

Market15 Jan 2029

The ambition of Shohruh Ganiev outgrows Alvarado early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

Market15 Jan 2029

Alvarado and Jordan da Costa are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout15 Jan 2029

When it matters, Lautaro Núñez plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief