Marked for Sergio González
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
62 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Racing lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Racing will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Racing will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Tomás Kummer 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergio González, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Facundo Taborda is on it.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Facundo Taborda damages knee ligaments — 70 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 70 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Dec 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 The request is on a desk at Racing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Dec 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Rébola 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
Abel Bustos 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
Leonel Monti is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Racing has been clear about where Leonel Monti stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market14 Dec 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alan Olinick may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Gabriel Aranda knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gabriel Aranda trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
106 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Racing lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Racing will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Racing have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Pablo Chavarría 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Axel Oyola was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Sergio González
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Facundo Taborda
113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Racing lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Sergio González: 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.” Racing have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Nov 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 Racing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The Racing board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tomás Kummer 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ricardo Centurión 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 278% of the Racing income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Gabriel Aranda
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Pablo Chavarría and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Abel Bustos for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Racing will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alejandro Rébola was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ricardo Centurión, and the manager let it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Three points for Racing, 1‑0 the final word against Colegiales in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Axel Oyola at his very best
Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Racing.
Squad28 Sep 2026
27 new faces, and Racing 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Cristian Sosa, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Valletta come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Racing did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Racing
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Racing are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Pablo Chavarría and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 Aug 2026
So close: Alfie James’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Melita moved on, Alfie James reports back to Racing, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
27 new faces, and Racing 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Cristian Sosa after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Ortíz 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.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Racing through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over San Martín de Burzaco, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 8 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Lautaro Ávila, 19, steals the show — 7.67
Marked 7.67 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
7.77, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Pablo Chavarría 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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 terraces17 Aug 2026
At 19 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcio Gómez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergio González, and the manager let it.