Marked for Ignacio Chicco
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market18 Oct 2027
Ignacio Chicco has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aldosivi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match16 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Aldosivi's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aldosivi has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Aldosivi
Ruan Tressoldi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match16 Oct 2027
Mitre left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout18 Oct 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Aldosivi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías López 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.
Boardroom18 Oct 2027
Nobody left the Aldosivi dressing room in a hurry
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 ratings18 Oct 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Alan Sosa
7.82, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Aldosivi had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Valentín Ponce to a room that had heard them before.
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Market11 Oct 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.
The dugout11 Oct 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Aldosivi
Ruan Tressoldi 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.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Ricardo Solbes has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Aldosivi have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Zalazar, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Elías López 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 dugout11 Oct 2027
Bautista Dadín has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Aldosivi 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Enzo Hoyos 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.
Market11 Oct 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nicolás Cordero signs something — a contract at Aldosivi or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Match18 Sep 2027
Nowhere to hide for Aldosivi
0‑3 against Racing Club, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market20 Sep 2027
Ignacio Chicco has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aldosivi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Facundo Garcés 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 dugout20 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Garcés, and the manager let it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words at Aldosivi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías López 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.
Boardroom20 Sep 2027
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
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 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Valentín Ponce to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Aldosivi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Match21 Aug 2027
Chastening afternoon for Aldosivi
A 0‑3 beating by Tigre was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad23 Aug 2027
8 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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Franco Cáceres: 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.” Aldosivi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market23 Aug 2027
Ignacio Chicco has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aldosivi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Octavio Domecq has agreed terms with Villa Dálmine for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Aldosivi
Ruan Tressoldi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Nobody left the Aldosivi dressing room in a hurry
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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Ruan Tressoldi 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 Aldosivi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market26 Jul 2027
“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 Aldosivi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
Aldosivi close the window on a squad of their own making
6 in and 9 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market26 Jul 2027
Only the photograph left for Ignacio Chicco
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ignacio Chicco will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aldosivi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match24 Jul 2027
The wait goes on for Aldosivi
4 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Aldosivi
Ruan Tressoldi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match24 Jul 2027
The goals have deserted Aldosivi
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Aldosivi can tell you which week it ends in.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Aldosivi will try again when the window opens; Independiente Rivadavia may not be selling by then.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Huracán have kept their man, and Aldosivi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Márquez, and the manager let it.
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Squad28 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Franco Cáceres
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aldosivi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market28 Jun 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Aldosivi have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout28 Jun 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.
Market28 Jun 2027
“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 Aldosivi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Aldosivi
Ruan Tressoldi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Justin Prada is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Huracán have kept their man, and Aldosivi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Aldosivi has been clear about where Rodrigo González stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Elías López 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.
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Squad21 Jun 2027
Franco Cáceres damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Sacachispas come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Aldosivi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The dugout21 Jun 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aldosivi can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Aldosivi
Ruan Tressoldi 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
UAI Urquiza wanted more than $180.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Aldosivi asked and Atlético Madrid said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Corinthians: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Match9 Jun 2027
Aldosivi bow out of the cup
Belgrano go through and Aldosivi go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market14 Jun 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Add another name to the list: Sacachispas have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rodrigo González. The answer from Aldosivi has not changed — yet.
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Ruan Tressoldi 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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Aldosivi have gone to UAI Urquiza with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market14 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done: Marco Campagnaro joins from Maipú in a deal worth $150.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Elías López 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 dugout14 Jun 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Match2 Jun 2027
A season ends in a fortnight for Aldosivi
0‑3, and Platense go on. Nine months of work settled by a couple of evenings, which is what a playoff is and what nobody designing one thinks about.
Market7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $270.0K — a club that wants Agustín Bindella enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Aldosivi have gone to Quilmes with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Ignacio Chicco again, and this time the name on the line is Cienciano. Aldosivi are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Aldosivi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías López 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.
Match2 Jun 2027
After 4 games, Aldosivi finally taste it again
The first defeat in 4 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Platense; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
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Steady
Squad29 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonardo Sigali
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aldosivi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market29 Mar 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.
The dugout29 Mar 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Justin Prada in a row with a teammate
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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Matías Morello 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.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Rodrigo González’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Aldosivi needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout29 Mar 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.
Market29 Mar 2027
The name of Franco Cáceres keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Aldosivi say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Federico Gino 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 Aldosivi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Squad1 Feb 2027
101 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aldosivi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ruan Tressoldi 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Aldosivi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Cristián Blanco
“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.
Looking ahead1 Feb 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Elías López’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Aldosivi needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Aldosivi will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Market7 Dec 2026
Franco Godoy hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aldosivi can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Aldosivi has been clear about where Rodrigo González stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Aldosivi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Natanael Guzmán 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.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Bahia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Bragantino: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Aldosivi than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Upbeat
Market26 Oct 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 Aldosivi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 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 Aldosivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Oct 2026
Estudiantes made Aldosivi work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Aldosivi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías López 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.89 on the card, and the Aldosivi support went home talking about one name.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Valentín Ponce could afford to be generous.
The dugout26 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.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Barracas Central in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Match19 Oct 2026
Aldosivi are in real trouble now
Position 15, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aldosivi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market19 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Franco Capponi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Franco Capponi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aldosivi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Rodrigo Gallo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Aldosivi have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Rodrigo Márquez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Aldosivi.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
Aldosivi supporters have found a favourite in Alan Sosa
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Alan Sosa 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Aldosivi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías López 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Leandro Sosa is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Matías Morello 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.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
Nicolás Cordero had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Gimnasia La Plata were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lucas Acosta 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Rodrigo Márquez — 7.72
Marked 7.72. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Match26 Sep 2026
Gimnasia La Plata left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Elías López 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 3‑4 Valentín Ponce left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Aldosivi, and it is a cruel one.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Franco Capponi has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Aldosivi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Aldosivi
Lucas Acosta 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tomás Fernández. 2‑1 against Racing Club, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Chicco, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Aldosivi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Morello was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Valentín Ponce on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Lucas Rodríguez 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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Crisis
Market14 Sep 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 Aldosivi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Aldosivi
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Aldosivi are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Lucas Rodríguez
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Elías López 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
Rodrigo González is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Squad14 Sep 2026
17 new faces, and Aldosivi 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Elías López
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Lucas Acosta
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
46 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aldosivi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lucas Acosta 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Muñoz 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pulga 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. Andrés López 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
One of our own: Nacho joins the Aldosivi first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nacho 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
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mauro Da Luz and Aldosivi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matías Morello 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ignacio Chicco
“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.