Rubén Botta

Central Midfielder - Defensa y Justicia
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Rubén Botta

5 Edition

The Defensa y Justicia Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market31 Aug 2026

Defensa y Justicia turn down Dynamo Kyiv for Lautaro Amadé

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

Éver Banega 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 Defensa y Justicia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Defensa y Justicia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rubén Botta 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

3 matches without a goal for Defensa y Justicia

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Aarón Molinas 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Aarón Molinas runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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4 Edition

The Defensa y Justicia Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Aarón Molinas runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match19 Aug 2026

The cup run ends for Defensa y Justicia

0‑0 against Quilmes, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Cristopher Fiermarin is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Cristopher Fiermarin: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market24 Aug 2026

Vissel Kobe come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Defensa y Justicia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Defensa y Justicia

Éver Banega 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Rubén Botta 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Julián López

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julián López, and the manager let it.

Market24 Aug 2026

The Santiago Toloza conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Bukhara will make the call about Santiago Toloza this week. Defensa y Justicia have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

The kick that got away from Emiliano Amor

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

In brief

2 Edition

The Defensa y Justicia Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Aarón Molinas

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match8 Aug 2026

Chastening afternoon for Defensa y Justicia

A 0‑3 beating by Gimnasia y Esgrima was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market10 Aug 2026

Defensa y Justicia say no — this time

The offer from Partizan for Lucas Souto was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Damián Fernández signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Damián Fernández commits to Defensa y Justicia for another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Éver Banega 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 Defensa y Justicia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Defensa y Justicia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rubén Botta 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Éver Banega

“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.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Defensa y Justicia dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market10 Aug 2026

Nobody at Defensa y Justicia has picked up the phone to Lucas Souto

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief