Jonathan Ríos

Defensive Midfielder - Retired
28 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jonathan Ríos

20 Edition

The Villa Espanola Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Pablo Lemos out for 21 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Villa Espanola will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Transfer targets

Jonathan Ríos will not be coming to Villa Espanola

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Colon is saying, and nobody at Villa Espanola is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets

Agustín Kahl due for a Villa Espanola medical

Everything agreed with Racing, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

As if he never left: Fabrizio Cardozo returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Fabrizio Cardozo is a Villa Espanola player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad

Words exchanged at Villa Espanola

Fabricio Santos 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.

Market

Villa Espanola get their man

The chase for Mateo Molinari ended with $27.0K changing hands and Atenas out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Lusiel Gómez is a Villa Espanola player

The fee is $19.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. La Luz drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

The terraces

The town asked, and Villa Espanola paid $27.0K

Mateo Molinari was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $27.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Squad

Gabriel Albín 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

Back issues
19 Edition

The Colon Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Faustino Choca agrees terms with Los Halcones

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Colon people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Jonathan Ríos 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 Colon can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Juan Crisafi due for a Colon medical

Everything agreed with La Luz, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Leandro Méndez 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 Colon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Colon

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

Market

No place for Agustín Chopitea in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Agustín Chopitea has his answer from Colon; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ronald Álvarez

“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.

Transfer targets

Colon ask about Santiago Torres

A loan enquiry to San Lorenzo: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

Nikola Perić slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Nikola Perić is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

In brief