The Real Frontera Courier
The terraces13 Nov 2028
The mood at Real Frontera 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.
Boardroom13 Nov 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Real Frontera
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad13 Nov 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matías Jorquera
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Real Frontera lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market13 Nov 2028
Kevin Eslava comes home
The shirt still fits. Kevin Eslava is back at Real Frontera, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Kevin Eslava gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kevin Eslava has just signed for Real Frontera, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad13 Nov 2028
A row about effort at Real Frontera
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan José Heinze was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Alexander Girón 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 Real Frontera this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market13 Nov 2028
Real Frontera promote Cristian Ramirez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristian Ramirez 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.
Market13 Nov 2028
One of our own: Darwin Rincon joins the Real Frontera first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Darwin Rincon is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Jose Herrera joins the Real Frontera first team
- Loan watch Elvis Maldonado's loan at Dynamo Puerto nearly up
- The dugout The manager comes out for Axel Tévez