Marked for Facundo Rivero
From our football correspondent
Crisis
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.
Market11 Oct 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colegiales they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
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Squad11 Oct 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Oct 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Zicarelli 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 dugout11 Oct 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Facundo Rivero 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
Market4 Oct 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 Colegiales can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Ignacio Vallejos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match2 Oct 2027
1‑2 to Deportivo Riestra, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout4 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Colegiales
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Marín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market4 Oct 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Colegiales, another week without a signature from Facundo Rivero.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Noah to sit and watch. I want to come back to Colegiales and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ricardo Ferrari after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
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Crisis
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Colegiales's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Colegiales has to find a result from somewhere.
Market23 Aug 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 Colegiales, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market23 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Tomás Perri
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tomás Perri will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Colegiales the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ignacio Vallejos 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Federico Marín 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market16 Aug 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Colegiales's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Colegiales has to find a result from somewhere.
Market16 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colegiales they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad16 Aug 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Aug 2027
Boca Juniors left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Vallejos, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Federico Marín 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 dugout16 Aug 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Aug 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 Colegiales can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Enzo Trinidad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Marín 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout2 Aug 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 Colegiales, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Ignacio Vallejos has moved up it.
The dugout2 Aug 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.
Looking ahead2 Aug 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Gimnasia y Esgrima in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Loan watch2 Aug 2027
16 appearances at New England Revolution and the goals keep coming. Colegiales are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Market5 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 Colegiales, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Jul 2027
The offer from Patronato for Gustavo Calderari 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at River Plate is saying, and nobody at Colegiales is enjoying the guessing.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Emanuel Insúa 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 targets5 Jul 2027
Colegiales asked and Godoy Cruz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Marín 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
A loan move for Rodrigo Moreira is in the works
Colegiales have made the call to Atlanta. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Colegiales sign 3 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
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Steady
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 Colegiales, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 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.
Squad28 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Elías Ocampo 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.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan move for Rodrigo Gallo is in the works
Colegiales have made the call to Deportivo Riestra. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan move for Leandro Quiroz is in the works
Colegiales have made the call to Godoy Cruz. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Facundo Rivero 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 Colegiales, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
When it matters, Andrés Ríos plays
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.
The dugout28 Jun 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.
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Crisis
Squad17 May 2027
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Colegiales lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market17 May 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 Colegiales, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings17 May 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Colegiales — 7.03
1 for Facundo Montiel, marked 7.03, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad17 May 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 May 2027
1‑2 to Vélez, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 May 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías Ocampo 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.
Squad17 May 2027
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout17 May 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Steady
Squad10 May 2027
Valentín Quevedo damages knee ligaments — 42 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 42 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.
Market10 May 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 dugout10 May 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Ignacio Vallejos 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.
Match8 May 2027
Three points for Colegiales, 2‑1 the final word against Instituto in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mauro Albertengo, and the manager let it.
Squad10 May 2027
Federico Marín 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.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Enzo Trinidad was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout10 May 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Ricardo Ferrari on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 May 2027
Valentín Quevedo damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.
Market3 May 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 Colegiales can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 May 2027
Mauro Albertengo 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Federico Marín 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Marked 8.01 — 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.
Match1 May 2027
Colegiales rescue it on 93 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Defensa y Justicia had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout3 May 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.
Market3 May 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Match21 Apr 2027
A 1‑0 win over Estudiantes, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market26 Apr 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 Colegiales, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Up for the corner, and Mateo Ramírez delivers — 7.51
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Mateo Ramírez scored, was marked 7.51, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Enzo Trinidad 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
0‑2 to Deportivo Riestra, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías Ocampo 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 dugout26 Apr 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ricardo Ferrari after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Andrés Ríos 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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Colegiales may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match20 Mar 2027
No end in sight to Colegiales's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Colegiales has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Federico Marín 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucio Castillo 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 dugout22 Mar 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
7.08, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Colegiales had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Facundo Rivero 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
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Iván Fernández out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colegiales will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Gonzalo Baglivo: 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.” Colegiales have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market8 Mar 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 Colegiales, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Enzo Trinidad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match6 Mar 2027
Boca Juniors left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Colegiales
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Marín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market8 Mar 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Colegiales, another week without a signature from Facundo Rivero.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ricardo Ferrari after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Feb 2027
87 days out for Iván Fernández after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Colegiales will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad15 Feb 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market15 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ricardo Martínez 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Enzo Trinidad. 1‑0 against Independiente, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Marín 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 ratings15 Feb 2027
Marked 7.99 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Colegiales had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
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.” Ricardo Ferrari, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Mateo Mamani 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.
The dugout15 Feb 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Andrés Ríos: 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.” Colegiales have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Enzo Trinidad commits to Colegiales for another 2 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Emanuel Insúa 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emanuel Insúa, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Marín 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Colegiales board go back on their word
Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.
Market8 Feb 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Colegiales, another week without a signature from Facundo Rivero.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
101 days out for Iván Fernández after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Colegiales will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market1 Feb 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 Colegiales, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Rivero, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Colegiales
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucio Castillo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mauro Albertengo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad1 Feb 2027
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Looking ahead1 Feb 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Newell's Old Boys in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market1 Feb 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Colegiales, another week without a signature from Gustavo Calderari.
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Upbeat
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The bid was some way short and Colegiales did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Enzo Trinidad 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Marín 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 dugout28 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Federico Marín 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 Colegiales, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market30 Nov 2026
Tomás Costa 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 Colegiales can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Enzo Trinidad 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ignacio Vallejos wants continental football; whether Colegiales can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emilio Di Fulvio, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Ramírez 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Colegiales, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Facundo Rivero has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“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 Colegiales will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Colegiales. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Colegiales may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Market2 Nov 2026
Tomás Costa 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 Colegiales can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leandro Martínez Montagnoli 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.
Squad2 Nov 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Mateo Ramírez
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad28 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑2 to San Miguel, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market28 Sep 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ignacio Vallejos wants continental football; whether Colegiales can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucio Castillo 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 dugout28 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Colegiales
20 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Federico Marín 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 Colegiales, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Squad17 Aug 2026
Enzo Trinidad 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Colegiales
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valentín Quevedo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Toloza
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Quilmes will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
San Martín next, and one man in the Colegiales dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Fernando Miranda
Nobody at Colegiales is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.94, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.90, and nobody on the pitch better.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Franco Malagueño has gone, the accounts have $3.9M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market10 Aug 2026
Morelia paid $3.9M and Colegiales took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad10 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lautaro Gordillo. 3‑1 against Los Andes, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Franco Romano 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pedro Suárez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hernán Rey 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.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Emanuel Insúa yet — 7.80
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.80 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Franco Malagueño has come up in conversations Colegiales were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Enzo Trinidad and Colegiales agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Enzo Trinidad 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ignacio Vallejos wants continental football; whether Colegiales can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Marín 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.