Ignacio Malcorra

Central Midfielder - Retired
9 Jul 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ignacio Malcorra

15 Edition

The Unión de Santa Fe Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Unión de Santa Fe run riot against Instituto

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Ignacio Malcorra yet — 8.08

At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.08 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mateo Raschia

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mateo Raschia will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Unión de Santa Fe the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words at Unión de Santa Fe training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauro Luna Diale 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Unión de Santa Fe

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

The terraces

Unión de Santa Fe supporters have found a favourite in Lautaro Vargas

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Lautaro Vargas has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

Unión de Santa Fe pick somebody else ahead of Franco Fragapane

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The dugout

Juan Martín Medina has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Juan Martín Medina on a 3‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Matías Rocha 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.

In brief

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3 Edition

The Unión de Santa Fe Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Central Córdoba SdE punish Unión de Santa Fe for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Cristian Tarragona will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Unión de Santa Fe escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings

A brace, and Cristian Tarragona takes the afternoon — 8.63

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Cristian Tarragona provided it, and the 8.63 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Unión de Santa Fe turn down Girona for Lautaro Vargas

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Matías Mansilla stands alone

6 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.

Squad

Ignacio Malcorra out for 21 days

The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Ignacio Malcorra, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market

Business is business: Marcelo Estigarribia goes

Eibar paid $1.7M and Unión de Santa Fe took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Mateo Raschia has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Unión de Santa Fe they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Junior Balbuena 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. Junior Balbuena has, at Unión de Santa Fe, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Words at Unión de Santa Fe training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauro Pittón 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.

In brief