Marked for Axel Werner
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Apr 2028
Axel Werner is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Axel Werner: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Apr 2028
Cup progress for Aldosivi
A 1‑1 win over Güemes, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market24 Apr 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emanuel Iñíguez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aldosivi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Apr 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aldosivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Apr 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Maximiliano Elsener 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.
Match22 Apr 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Junior Arias. 1‑0 against Sarmiento, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words at Aldosivi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas 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.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Maximiliano Elsener was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.28. 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.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Back issues
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Crisis
Boardroom27 Sep 2027
Pressure builds in the Aldosivi boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match25 Sep 2027
0‑3 to Banfield, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market27 Sep 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match25 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Aldosivi
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aldosivi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad27 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aldosivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at Aldosivi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Esteban Rolón 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“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.
Boardroom27 Sep 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market9 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Uriel Rodríguez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aldosivi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aldosivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Jun 2027
Santiago Campione damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Esteban Rolón 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Guillermo Enrique 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.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Aldosivi, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Mauro Da Luz 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Aldosivi have let the market know Esteban Rolón can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Triumph
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
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Acosta commits to Aldosivi for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Esteban Rolón 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
Lucas Rodríguez 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 1‑0, and it was Junior Arias’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Aldosivi.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months and counting on Lucas Acosta
Still no offer on the table, and Lucas Acosta’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.