Marked for Cipriano Treppo
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
109 days out for Nicolás Gauna after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. San Martín de Burzaco will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Elías Brizuela 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Giménez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elías Brizuela, and the manager let it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
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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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around San Martín de Burzaco are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Elías Brizuela 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
Words at San Martín de Burzaco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Velázquez 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 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Sportivo Italiano left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
The game went through David Soria — 6.79
Marked 6.79 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around San Martín de Burzaco are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ignacio Serpa 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lautaro Coria 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabrizio Acosta, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, San Martín de Burzaco have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nicolás Gauna dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Elías Brizuela 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 San Martín de Burzaco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Coria 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Dock Sud, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tomás Flores after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Fabrizio Acosta’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and San Martín de Burzaco needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
No place in the plan for Kevin Denis
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad24 Aug 2026
At 27 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. San Martín de Burzaco have a decision that made itself.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match12 Aug 2026
Racing ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Elías Brizuela and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Rodrigo Díaz beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. San Martín de Burzaco will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.67 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, San Martín de Burzaco had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ignacio Serpa 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at San Martín de Burzaco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Coria 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mario Romano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. José Luis Russo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Chori 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego Moreno is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Lautaro Coria
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. San Martín de Burzaco will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
17 new faces, and San Martín de Burzaco 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Tomás Flores chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.