The Deportivo Maldonado Herald
Squad11 Jun 2035
A fracture rules Martín Ginzo out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Maldonado will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Jun 2035
Sebastian Silva damages knee ligaments — 65 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 65 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.
Player ratings11 Jun 2035
Matías Espíndola runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings11 Jun 2035
Age has not caught Santiago Ramírez yet — 7.96
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.96 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad11 Jun 2035
Ori Levi says Deportivo Maldonado went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad11 Jun 2035
Tempers go at Deportivo Maldonado
Matías Espíndola was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
In brief
- Match Deportivo Maldonado see off Racing
- Market Ramon Hernandez leaves for nothing
- Market Brian Coates leaves for nothing
- Boardroom Deportivo Maldonado keep producing them