Marked for Derlis Riveros
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adilson Lezcano and Pastoreo agree another 2 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Pastoreo
Adilson Lezcano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Pastoreo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nelson Seguel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Derlis Riveros commits to Pastoreo for another 1 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Pastoreo
Arnaldo Zárate 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Pastoreo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Derlis Riveros is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Santiago Cardozo 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pablo Peralta 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Pastoreo are still strangers to each other
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pastoreo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The training reports on Juan Gimenez are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Rodrigo Alvarenga damages knee ligaments — 43 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 43 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.
Match12 Aug 2026
Sportivo Luqueno ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad17 Aug 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Pastoreo are taken apart by Sportivo Luqueno — and the town wants answers
It finished 1-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 23 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Enrique Guedes gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Enrique Guedes has just signed for Pastoreo, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Pastoreo — 7.18
1 for Derlis Riveros, marked 7.18, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market17 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Daniel 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.