Mathias Ramirez

Left Back - Sud America
6 Nov 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Mathias Ramirez

161 Edition

The Sud America Sentinel

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Sud America

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Valentino Torrente has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sud America they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Valentino Torrente has agreed to leave Sud America for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Diego Cor 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 Sud America this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Sud America

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Valentino Torrente

“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

Back issues
81 Edition

The Sud America Sentinel

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Jose Rios breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Sergio Montero keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sud America may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A falling-out at Sud America

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

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Sud America

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Words at Sud America training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonzalo Sena 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.

Market

One of our own: Mathias Ramirez joins the Sud America first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mathias Ramirez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Manuel Martinez joins the Sud America first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Manuel Martinez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Gabriel Torres joins the Sud America first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriel Torres is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Ivan Santos joins the Sud America first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Santos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief