Marked for Lisandro López
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Thiago Cardozo damages knee ligaments — 114 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 114 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Braian Uribe takes the afternoon — 8.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Braian Uribe provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Lisandro López yet — 8.11
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.11 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lucas Zelarayán 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 4‑3 win over Sarmiento, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match5 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Belgrano and Sarmiento, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Emiliano Rigoni and Belgrano agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Adrián Sánchez 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Nicolás Fernández at his very best
Marked 8.39. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Belgrano.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Thiago Cardozo damages knee ligaments — 123 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 123 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.
Squad31 Aug 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 Belgrano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Belgrano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Vázquez 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Banfield left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Franco Vázquez commits to Belgrano for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lucas Zelarayán 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Franco Vázquez 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Tomás Castro’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Belgrano.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lisandro López has his answer from Belgrano; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Tomás Castro was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.87. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Tomás Castro 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.