Leandro Díaz

Striker - Atlético Tucumán
15 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Leandro Díaz

2 Edition

The Atlético Tucumán Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Atlético Tucumán the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Carlos Abeldaño turns Eldense down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market

Sabadell come back empty-handed

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

Boardroom

Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez signs for Flandria while still at Atlético Tucumán

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez has agreed terms with Flandria for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Leandro Díaz 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 Atlético Tucumán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Gianluca Ferrari 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Leandro Díaz

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

Market

Atlético Tucumán promote Nacho from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nacho has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

Atlético Tucumán come up short against Banfield

Banfield left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Atlético Tucumán Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Atlético Tucumán say no — this time

The offer from Ibiza for Carlos Abeldaño 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.

Squad

Leandro Díaz signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leandro Díaz commits to Atlético Tucumán for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Atlético Tucumán

Leandro Díaz 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.

Squad

Words at Atlético Tucumán training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Ortiz 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 Luis Ingolotti

“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.

Market

Atlético Tucumán and Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings

Nicolás Laméndola was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Nobody at Atlético Tucumán has picked up the phone to Martín Benítez

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

Squad

23 new faces, and Atlético Tucumán are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief