The San Martín de Burzaco Chronicle
Squad15 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Franco Di Santo
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Martín de Burzaco lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Leandro Moreira breaks a bone — 26 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match13 Feb 2027
San Martín de Burzaco cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at San Martín de Burzaco
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.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
The crowd has taken to Ignacio Serpa
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match13 Feb 2027
Ignacio Serpa sends San Martín de Burzaco past Villa Dálmine
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ignacio Serpa’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to San Martín de Burzaco.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Matías Gómez was the difference for San Martín de Burzaco
Marked 7.98. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Francisco Vergara
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Sergio Flores: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
In brief
- The dugout Eber Vera gets it from the manager
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Damián Ramírez's mistake
- Player ratings Cipriano Treppo keeps on missing