Marked for Ignacio Colombini
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 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 Talleres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matías Samaniego and Talleres agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Talleres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maximiliano Rodríguez 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 160% of everything Talleres 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.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match3 Oct 2026
It needed Ignacio Colombini to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Estudiantes, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Roberto Ponce after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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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Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.37 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Federico Versaci 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Three points for Talleres, 2‑1 the final word against Chaco For Ever in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
The dugout28 Sep 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
Rodrigo Vélez knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Talleres, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Pablo Cortizo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Talleres will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Talleres lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Talleres
Rodrigo Vélez 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maximiliano Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Temperley, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Talleres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eugenio Olivera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Roberto Ponce to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolás Malvacio trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Chaco For Ever next, and one man in the Talleres dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
8 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Talleres lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.97 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Talleres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximiliano Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Talleres
Eugenio Olivera and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over San Telmo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Milton Cantero 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
A promise honoured at Talleres
Something was said to Maximiliano Rodríguez and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Talleres
14 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.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Alcione Milano had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 17 days out for Rodrigo Vélez
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Talleres will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Federico Versaci 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Eugenio Olivera 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.36 on the card, and the Talleres support went home talking about one name.
The dugout31 Aug 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 dugout31 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Talleres?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Central Norte? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Chances created: 9. The column nobody reads carried the whole story of the match, and his name was at the top of it.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Talleres
0‑3 against Belgrano, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Belgrano follows Talleres home
0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Squad24 Aug 2026
6 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Abel Masuero yet — 7.83
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Talleres
Federico Versaci 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Talleres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maximiliano Rodríguez 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Lautaro Bursich has come up in conversations Talleres were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Eugenio Olivera
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Talleres caught on 87 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Agropecuario Argentino scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Lautaro Bursich: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match12 Aug 2026
Talleres march on in the cup
Real Pilar are out and Talleres go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.50, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Talleres can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Federico Ulayar delivers — 7.84
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Federico Ulayar scored, was marked 7.84, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Talleres
Federico Versaci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Talleres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximiliano Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Morón, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Braian Mansilla for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Talleres will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
4‑1, and Facundo Rodríguez took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Talleres tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Facundo Rodríguez, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 9.03
A mark of 9.03 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad3 Aug 2026
201 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Talleres know exactly what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ignacio Colombini commits to Talleres for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Talleres
Ignacio Colombini 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Leonel Barrios 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 Talleres.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Matías Bazzi 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.