Marked for Facundo Quignón
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tomás Villoldo damages knee ligaments — 96 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 96 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Mariano Santiago: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Almirante Brown have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Leonardo Jara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Quignón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gonzalo Flores, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Gastón Moreyra asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Villoldo
103 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Almirante Brown lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Gonzalo Flores: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Almirante Brown have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market16 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Almirante Brown, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Almirante Brown is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Nov 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 Almirante Brown this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Facundo Quignón 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Mariano Santiago asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Almirante Brown may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Leonardo Jara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Facundo Quignón 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nazareno Bazán Vera, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
27 new faces, and Almirante Brown 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ulises Abreliano is on it.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Leonardo Jara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Facundo Quignón 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 149% of everything Almirante Brown earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Facundo Quignón named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Facundo Quignón is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Noble, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Gastón Moreyra knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gastón Moreyra trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Something was said to Tomás Villoldo and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.19, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 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 Almirante Brown this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 2‑0 win over Nueva Chicago, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Enzo Lopetegui
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Javier Martínez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.32. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Almirante Brown training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mariano Santiago 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Almirante Brown is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Eric Tovo has agreed terms with Tigre for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Leonardo Jara 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.86, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Almirante Brown training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Quignón 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Carlos Gugenheim. 2‑1 against Chacarita Juniors, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Carlos Gugenheim 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.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
Defensa y Justicia go through and Almirante Brown go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match29 Aug 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Chaco For Ever will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Facundo Quignón, 33, rolls back the years — 8.17
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.17 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Leonardo Jara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Almirante Brown have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Defensores, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad24 Aug 2026
7 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.
Squad24 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 Almirante Brown this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Fernando Rodríguez wants continental football; whether Almirante Brown can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Quignón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jesús Soraire, and the manager let it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 96th minute. Central Norte will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $1.5M sale of Alexis Martínez
He is going to Eibar, the club has $1.5M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Almirante Brown have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eibar pay $1.5M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market10 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.
Squad10 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 Almirante Brown this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Almirante Brown training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Jara 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Enzo Cardozo, 20, steals the show — 7.89
Marked 7.89 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market3 Aug 2026
Kolos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Almirante Brown did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonardo Jara and Almirante Brown agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Leonardo Jara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Facundo Quignón 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Santiago Villalba 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Alexis Martínez has come up in conversations Almirante Brown were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.