Thiago Rivera

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Atenas
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Marked for Thiago Rivera

299 Edition

The Atenas Sentinel

19 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market19 Apr 2032

Ramon Ramirez asks to leave Atenas

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

Matias Lopez keeps the receipts

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

Match17 Apr 2032

Still nobody has beaten Atenas

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad19 Apr 2032

Words exchanged at Atenas

Matías Núñez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings19 Apr 2032

Lucas Bassadone runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match17 Apr 2032

Atenas and Fenix take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

When it matters, Lucas Bassadone plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

The manager makes an example of Igor Leonardi

“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.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

Kevin Torres on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Kevin Torres after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

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298 Edition

The Atenas Sentinel

12 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings12 Apr 2032

Lucas Bassadone runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad12 Apr 2032

Facundo Briñón 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 Atenas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match10 Apr 2032

Still nobody has beaten Atenas

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match10 Apr 2032

Atenas rescue it on 87 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 87. Cerrito had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Squad12 Apr 2032

A row about effort at Atenas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eduardo Varela was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match10 Apr 2032

Atenas and Cerrito take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout12 Apr 2032

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Kevin Torres was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Atenas dressing room was either.

Squad12 Apr 2032

Samuel Gallo named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Samuel Gallo has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

The dugout12 Apr 2032

Jean López is still paying for one afternoon at Atenas

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

291 Edition

The Atenas Sentinel

23 Feb 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout23 Feb 2032

Matias Lopez keeps the receipts

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

Player ratings23 Feb 2032

Age has not caught Lucas Arzamendia yet — 7.88

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market23 Feb 2032

Ramon Ramirez 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 Atenas can pretend not to have heard.

Squad23 Feb 2032

Words exchanged at Atenas

Facundo Briñón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match21 Feb 2032

Lucas Arzamendia sends Atenas past Colon

It finished 1‑0, and it was Lucas Arzamendia’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Atenas.

Squad23 Feb 2032

Thiago Rivera signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thiago Rivera commits to Atenas for another 3 years.

The dugout23 Feb 2032

A satisfied Kevin Torres

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Kevin Torres could afford to be generous.

The dugout23 Feb 2032

Lucas Bassadone 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 Lucas Bassadone is on it.

Squad23 Feb 2032

Alan Chacón 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.

In brief