Javier Iritier

Right Midfielder - San Telmo
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Javier Iritier

5 Edition

The San Telmo Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Market

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 terraces

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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

Back issues
4 Edition

The San Telmo Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

138 days out for Leonel Pollacchi 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.

Squad

10 saves: Gabriel Ratalín was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

San Telmo bow out of the cup

Instituto go through and San Telmo 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.

Match

No end in sight to San Telmo's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Telmo has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at San Telmo

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.

Player ratings

Javier Iritier beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Antonio Roble’s goal not enough for San Telmo

Antonio Roble scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Almirante Brown, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

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 dugout

No hiding place for Juan Motroni

“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.

In brief

2 Edition

The San Telmo Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Joaquín Enrico stands alone

9 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.

Player ratings

Javier Iritier beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

San Telmo lose Juan Cruz Zurbriggen

60 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

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.

Match

Iñaki Larthirigoyen’s goal not enough for San Telmo

Iñaki Larthirigoyen scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Chacarita Juniors, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

Gabriel Romano steps up from the San Telmo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Romano 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.

Market

San Telmo promote Carlos Luna from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Carlos Luna 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.

Market

One of our own: Sergio Domínguez joins the San Telmo first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergio Domínguez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Valentino García steps up from the San Telmo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentino García 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.

In brief

  • Squad Words at San Telmo training over how hard people work
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Leonel Pollacchi
  • The dugout The view from the dugout