Joel Sacks

Right Back - Plaza Colonia
25 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Joel Sacks

11 Edition

The Plaza Colonia Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Kevin Morgan keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Plaza Colonia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Lucas Carrizo 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 Plaza Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Joel Sacks is slowing down

At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad

Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Otegui 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Facundo Píriz

“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.

The dugout

When it matters, Yacouba Meïté 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.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Plaza Colonia Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Plaza Colonia

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

Squad

Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Máximo Lorenzi 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.

The dugout

Matías Ocampo 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Plaza Colonia

13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

Joel Sacks stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joel Sacks and Plaza Colonia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Experience through the door at Plaza Colonia

Joel Sacks arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief