Marked for Javier Iritier
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
90 days out for Lucas Baldunciel after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. San Telmo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for San Telmo
1‑4 against Talleres, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
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 The request is on a desk at San Telmo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Sep 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 San Telmo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Martín Batallini 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
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Colombo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Nacho joins the San Telmo 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.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
111 days out for Lucas Baldunciel after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. San Telmo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put San Telmo out
Out, 0‑2 to Boca Juniors, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Juan Cruz Zurbriggen 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Petrojet have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Juan Pablo Rial. The answer from San Telmo has not changed — yet.
Squad24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Motroni, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match15 Aug 2026
The 88th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Juan Cruz Zurbriggen decided nobody was going anywhere. Nueva Chicago had no time left to answer.
Market17 Aug 2026
San Telmo say no — this time
The offer from ENPPI for Nicolás Baigorria was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 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 San Telmo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Luis Montilla goes
Andorra paid $290.0K and San Telmo took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Nueva Chicago, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at San Telmo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jerónimo Porto Lapegüe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.