Edgar Peralta

Left Forward - Rubio Nu
3 May 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Edgar Peralta

140 Edition

The Rubio Nu Gazette

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

David Fleitas 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 Rubio Nu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Derlis Alegre signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Derlis Alegre commits to Rubio Nu for another 2 years.

Squad

Ángel González 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Derlis Alegre

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Derlis Alegre, and the manager let it.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Bryan Bentaberry

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Bryan Bentaberry has come out of that comparison in the side, and Rubio Nu have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Boardroom

Rubio Nu counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Rubio Nu now.

The dugout

Cristhian Riveros asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Edgar Peralta 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 Edgar Peralta is on it.

Market

10 months and counting on Gonzalo Egido

Still no offer on the table, and Gonzalo Egido’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief

Back issues
137 Edition

The Rubio Nu Gazette

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Rubio Nu has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

Rubio Nu bow out of the cup

Recoleta go through and Rubio Nu go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Francisco Brizueña runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Bryan Bentaberry goes up and wins it — 7.67

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.67 for the rest of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Rubio Nu

Ángel González 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.

Match

Felipe Gómez sends Rubio Nu past Guarani de Fram

It finished 2‑1, and it was Felipe Gómez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rubio Nu.

Match

Rubio Nu end the wait against Guarani de Fram

It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

The dugout

Brian Blasi 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.

Squad

Words at Rubio Nu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Pineda 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.

In brief

  • Player ratings Felipe Gómez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Ángel González knocks on the manager's door
80 Edition

The Rubio Nu Gazette

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Sportivo Luqueno end the Rubio Nu run at 20

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 20 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

The dugout

Ever Cristaldo says Rubio Nu 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.

Market

Santiago Irala hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rubio Nu can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Bryan Bentaberry 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 Rubio Nu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Luis Colín arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Luis Colín has, at Rubio Nu, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Boardroom

1 academy graduates step up at Rubio Nu

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.

Match

Rubio Nu make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Derlis Alegre signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Derlis Alegre commits to Rubio Nu for another 2 years.

Transfer targets

Rubio Nu rebuffed over Ángel González

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Libertad have kept their man, and Rubio Nu go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief