Iván Cetrini

Goalkeeper - Retired
25 May 2030
Saturday
Process

Marked for Iván Cetrini

128 Edition

The Tembetary Chronicle

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Juan González puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tembetary, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Lucas Varela arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lucas Varela has, at Tembetary, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Joaquín Santos due for a Tembetary medical

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

Market

The General Caballero JLM deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Blas Duarte reports back to Tembetary with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

Esteban Maidana 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 Tembetary this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Tembetary

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

Squad

Denis Colmán signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Denis Colmán commits to Tembetary for another 3 years.

The dugout

When it matters, Esteban Maidana 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.

Match

Tembetary in the hunt for Europe

Position 5, 37 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.

In brief

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The Tembetary Chronicle

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Nilson Camacho 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 Tembetary can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Armando Godoy is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tembetary is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Tembetary

Hugo Fernández 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.

Loan watch

Carlos Barrios wants to come home

“I did not go to Pastoreo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tembetary and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

The dugout

Gustavo Marecos 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.

Boardroom

The Tembetary board find $1.6M for the manager

Money, not words, and it is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending $1.6M well is entirely his problem now.

The dugout

Armando Godoy has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tembetary will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Cristóbal Valbuena: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Tembetary will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Squad

Somebody is after Hugo Fernández’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Hugo Fernández suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Tembetary have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief