The Bella Vista Herald
Squad12 Apr 2027
Gonzalo Silva stands alone
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Andrés García scores twice — 8.70
Two goals and a mark of 8.70 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Bella Vista
Franco Rofrano 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Mauro Alfonso 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 terraces12 Apr 2027
One of their own: Franco Rofrano
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match10 Apr 2027
Andrés García sends Bella Vista past Oriental
It finished 2‑0, and it was Andrés García’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bella Vista.
Market12 Apr 2027
Bella Vista promote Sergio Diaz from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergio Diaz has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Damián Costa 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Damián Costa makes it 100
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Bella Vista and Jonathan Toledo
- The dugout A satisfied Ivan De Arrascaeta
- The dugout Gonzalo Magliano has become a man the manager trusts