Iván Correa

Left Forward - Defensores Unidos
17 Apr 2036
Thursday
Process

Marked for Iván Correa

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The Defensores Unidos Herald

11 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tomás Ferreyra damages knee ligaments — 111 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 111 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Defensores Unidos

Luis Olivera and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Chacarita Juniors take the points off Defensores Unidos

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mauro Rodas

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

Market

Still no ink between Defensores Unidos and Alan Maimo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Defensores Unidos, another week without a signature from Alan Maimo.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Valentín Rojas 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.

Boardroom

Nobody arrives at Defensores Unidos until somebody leaves

The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Defensores Unidos this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.

Looking ahead

A test against the best for Defensores Unidos

The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Sportivo Italiano.

In brief

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The Defensores Unidos Herald

23 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Tomás Herrera says Defensores Unidos 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Defensores Unidos

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

Market

Defensores Unidos promote Felipe Pereyra from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Felipe Pereyra 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.

Market

Iván Correa steps up from the Defensores Unidos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Iván Correa has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Bichi steps up from the Defensores Unidos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bichi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Defensores Unidos promote Miguel Ángel Sánchez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Ángel Sánchez 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.

In brief