The San Telmo Gazette
Squad31 Aug 2026
Leonel Pollacchi breaks a bone — 131 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 131 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 2026
Juan Pablo Rial agrees terms with AlbinoLeffe
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around San Telmo people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Juan Yangali delivers — 7.84
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Juan Yangali scored, was marked 7.84, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at San Telmo
Juan Cruz Zurbriggen 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
San Telmo see off Mitre
Three points for San Telmo, 2‑1 the final word against Mitre in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Iñaki Larthirigoyen
At 22 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at San Telmo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Motroni was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Emanuel Díaz 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
16 new faces, and San Telmo 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
- The dugout Luis Quiroga has his say
- The dugout Emanuel Díaz left out for tactical reasons at San Telmo
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Javier Iritier