Leonardo Sequeira

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Union Espanola
8 Jul 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Leonardo Sequeira

100 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Leonardo Sequeira leads the rout of San Marcos de Arica

5‑2, and Leonardo Sequeira took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Union Espanola tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Angelo Araos asks to leave Union Espanola

“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.

Player ratings

Vintage Leonardo Sequeira — 10.00

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 10.00, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

3 goals for Leonardo Sequeira

The match ball belongs to Leonardo Sequeira, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Nicolas Fuentes has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Union Espanola they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Marco Miori wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Boardroom

Union Espanola to lose Nicolas Fuentes for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Nicolas Fuentes has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Player ratings

A goal and an assist for Pablo Aránguiz — 7.90

Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.90 beside his name.

Squad

A falling-out at Union Espanola

Valentin Vidal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

Back issues
97 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Sebastián Pereira asks to leave Union Espanola

“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.

Market

Union Espanola say no — this time

The offer from Deportes Limache for Diego Robles 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.

Match

Union Espanola make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Union Espanola have 3 straight wins of it.

Market

Valentin Vidal wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

A falling-out at Union Espanola

Leonardo Sequeira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Angelo Araos — 7.31

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 15 actions, 7.31, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Match

Marco Miori sends Union Espanola past Deportes Copiapó

It finished 2‑1, and it was Marco Miori’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Union Espanola.

Squad

A row about effort at Union Espanola

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brayan Véjar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Martín Ormeño

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

96 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Angelo Araos puts it in writing

“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 Union Espanola, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Cruel end for Curicó Unido as Union Espanola pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Union Espanola scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Match

Union Espanola are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 34 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Jorge Peña

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 ratings

A brace, and Leonardo Sequeira takes the afternoon — 8.84

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Leonardo Sequeira provided it, and the 8.84 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

A falling-out at Union Espanola

Valentin Vidal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Union Espanola

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Aránguiz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Leonardo Sequeira the difference as Union Espanola beat Curicó Unido

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leonardo Sequeira. 2‑1 against Curicó Unido, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

Alejandro Lopera 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.

In brief

95 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The cup run ends for Union Espanola

0‑3 against Iquique, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

Union Espanola refuse to lose, and Marco Miori leads them

The 2-goal deficit was real and so was the recovery. Marco Miori was at the centre of it, Deportes Concepción were at the end of it, and everybody who left early will hear about this one for years.

Player ratings

A brace, and Marco Miori takes the afternoon — 9.18

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marco Miori provided it, and the 9.18 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Both of them Leonardo Sequeira's — 9.13

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Gonzalo Villarreal puts it in writing

“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 Union Espanola, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Iquique follows Union Espanola home

0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Market

Gabriel Norambuena has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Union Espanola they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Union Espanola

Angelo Araos 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.

Match

Marco Miori the difference as Union Espanola beat Deportes Concepción

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marco Miori. 4‑2 against Deportes Concepción, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

93 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The run at home goes on for Union Espanola

10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Valentin Vidal 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 Union Espanola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Union Espanola

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Aránguiz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Leonardo Sequeira the difference as Union Espanola beat Unión San Felipe

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leonardo Sequeira. 1‑0 against Unión San Felipe, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alejandro Gutiérrez

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alejandro Gutiérrez, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Martín Ormeño beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Leonardo Sequeira

7.77, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Union Espanola had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

Martín Ormeño makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

A satisfied Jose Maripan

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Jose Maripan could afford to be generous.

In brief

91 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Angelo Araos puts it in writing

“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 Union Espanola, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Gabriel Norambuena has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Union Espanola they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Marco Miori wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match

Nobody wants to play Union Espanola right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Tempers go at Union Espanola

Pablo Aránguiz 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.

Match

Union Espanola make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

Union Espanola find a way past Magallanes

Magallanes made Union Espanola work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Brayan Véjar 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.

Looking ahead

Union Espanola and Iquique meet at the summit

The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Marco Miori
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout João Fernandes knocks on the manager's door
90 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Nicolás Palma 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 Union Espanola can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Union Espanola are top

19 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Market

Mitchell Wassenne is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Union Espanola is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Mitchell Wassenne signs for Magallanes while still at Union Espanola

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mitchell Wassenne has agreed terms with Magallanes for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Words exchanged at Union Espanola

Leonardo Sequeira 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Union Espanola

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Aránguiz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Union Espanola find a way past San Luis

San Luis made Union Espanola work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gonzalo Villarreal

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gonzalo Villarreal, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Leonardo Sequeira

7.70, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Union Espanola had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

89 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Alejandro Gutiérrez 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 Union Espanola can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Nicolás Palma says Union Espanola went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Valentin Vidal 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 Union Espanola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Alejandro Lopera raises the bar for Union Espanola

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Union Espanola heard it as anything else.

Squad

Words at Union Espanola training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Aránguiz 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.

Match

Leonardo Sequeira sends Union Espanola past Deportes Santa Cruz

It finished 2‑0, and it was Leonardo Sequeira’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Union Espanola.

Match

Nobody wins at Union Espanola

8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Player ratings

Angelo Araos in the eights

A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

Jose Maripan has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Jose Maripan on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

86 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Union Espanola through in the cup

A 5‑2 win over Santiago Morning, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Ignacio Sinturión scores twice — 8.03

Two goals and a mark of 8.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Diego Robles, 20, steals the show — 8.67

Marked 8.67 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The dugout

Maximiliano Rolón keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Union Espanola may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

The run is over for Union Espanola

8 matches without defeat, and then Santiago Wanderers. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Union Espanola and Santiago Morning in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Words at Union Espanola training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Aránguiz 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Union Espanola

Ariel Uribe 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.

Match

Leonardo Sequeira’s goal not enough for Union Espanola

Leonardo Sequeira scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Santiago Wanderers, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

In brief

83 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Angelo Araos 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 Union Espanola can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Gabriel Norambuena

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gabriel Norambuena will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Union Espanola the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

Union Espanola cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Tempers go at Union Espanola

Leonardo Sequeira 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.

Squad

Words at Union Espanola training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Aránguiz 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.

Match

Ignacio Jeraldino sends Union Espanola past Rangers de Talca

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ignacio Jeraldino’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Union Espanola.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Ariel Uribe

A mark of 7.60, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

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.” Jose Maripan, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Pablo Aránguiz 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 Union Espanola, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

77 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Luis Jara damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.

Market

Nicolás Palma puts it in writing

“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 Union Espanola, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Angelo Araos wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

A row about effort at Union Espanola

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Aránguiz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Ariel Uribe 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 Union Espanola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Celso Castillo stays at Deportes Temuco as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Union Espanola will try again when the window opens; Deportes Temuco may not be selling by then.

Squad

The formation has left Leonardo Sequeira behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Union Espanola will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gabriel Norambuena

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Norambuena, and the manager let it.

Market

Union Espanola put Ignacio Jeraldino up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ignacio Jeraldino may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

76 Edition

The Union Espanola Gazette

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Union Espanola has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Luis Jara damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Market

Sebastián Pereira wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Union Espanola hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Leonardo Sequeira 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 Union Espanola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Union Espanola walk away from Bastián Solano

$94.0K was the most the club would pay and Coquimbo Unido were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Daniel González

Union Espanola asked and Universidad Catolica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Máximo Soto deal

Union Espanola ran out of time with Deportes Recoleta. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Market

Daniel Osorio steps up from the Union Espanola academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Osorio 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

One of our own: Jorge Bravo joins the Union Espanola first team

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

In brief

70 Edition

The Huracán Post

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Huracán spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

Huracán are in real trouble now

Position 13, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

A row about effort at Huracán

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Gil was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Leonardo Sequeira pulls a muscle — 16 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

A falling-out at Huracán

Joel Godoy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Francisco Vergara 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 dugout

Santiago Luján 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 Santiago Luján trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

A door opens for Patricio Pizarro

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout

The manager plants his flag on Óscar Cortés

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Óscar Cortés’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief

69 Edition

The Huracán Post

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

César Ibáñez breaks a bone — 18 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Leandro Garate says Huracán went back on their word

“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.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Cristian Núñez’s exile

18 goals in 39 games at Fénix — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Huracán updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Squad

Tempers go at Huracán

Juan Bisanz 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Huracán

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Gil was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Ojeda

“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.

Loan watch

6 clean sheets on loan for Nazareno Durán

29 appearances at São Bernardo and the goals have stopped going in. Huracán lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

The dugout

Lautaro Carrera 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 Huracán, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

A door opens for Leonardo Sequeira

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

68 Edition

The Huracán Post

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

César Ibáñez breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at Huracán

Hernán Galíndez 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.

Boardroom

Still no name above the door at Huracán

Day 14 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Squad

A row about effort at Huracán

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guillermo Enrique was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Lautaro Carrera

“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.

The dugout

César Ibáñez 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 César Ibáñez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

No place for Leonardo Sequeira in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Leonardo Sequeira has his answer from Huracán; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Loan watch

Sebastián Ramírez keeps scoring at Tristán Suárez

30 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Market

The Santiago Luján question follows Huracán around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Santiago Luján’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

61 Edition

The Huracán Post

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Huracán boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

The terraces

Anger at Huracán spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Hernán Galíndez

There were 6 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.

The dugout

Alexis Dulón says Huracán went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Huracán

Hernán Galíndez 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Huracán

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Gil was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Huracán come up short against Atlético Tucumán

Atlético Tucumán left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Guillermo Enrique

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guillermo Enrique, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Cristian Núñez’s exile

12 goals in 33 games at Fénix — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Huracán updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Óscar Romero dropped after a run of poor form
  • Looking ahead The leaders are next for Huracán
55 Edition

The Huracán Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ignacio Coscio damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.

Match

Huracán find a way past Gimnasia La Plata

Gimnasia La Plata made Huracán work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

A row about effort at Huracán

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Gil was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Hernán Galíndez 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Óscar Cortés

At 23 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Óscar Cortés

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

One of those days for Joel Godoy

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Leonardo Sequeira 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 Huracán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Facundo Jáuregui has seen enough of Real Murcia

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Huracán, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

51 Edition

The Huracán Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Hernán Galíndez

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.

Market

Rodrigo Cabral has said yes to Vélez

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Huracán have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Match

No end in sight to Huracán's wait for a win

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

Market

Patricio Pizarro 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 Huracán can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Leonardo Sequeira says Huracán went back on their word

“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.

Market

Huracán sell Lautaro Mora for $1.2M

Lautaro Mora has left for Estudiantes in a $1.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

A falling-out at Huracán

Hernán Galíndez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Iván Chaves is a Huracán player

The fee is $100.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Patronato drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Leonardo Gil 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.

In brief

50 Edition

The Huracán Post

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Terms done: Nahuel Maldonado is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and San Martín de Burzaco waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Huracán is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Leonardo Sequeira 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 Huracán can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Patricio Pizarro: 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.” Huracán have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

Huracán to lose Santino Piccinetti for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Santino Piccinetti has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Hernán Galíndez 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 Huracán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Huracán

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Vera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Matías Molina will join Huracán for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Matías Molina has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Huracán have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Juan Barinaga

Huracán asked and Boca Juniors said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Guillermo Enrique 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.

In brief

46 Edition

The Huracán Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Huracán out of the cup

Deportivo Armenio ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Leandro Lescano agrees terms with Villa San Carlos

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Huracán people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Leonardo Sequeira 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 Huracán can pretend not to have heard.

Match

The wait goes on for Huracán

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Rodrigo Cabral runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

An offer of $300.0K for Ignacio Moreno

Huracán have gone to Rosario Central with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market

Liverpool Montevideo watching Alexis Steimbach

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Huracán have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Leonardo Gil 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 targets

Olympiacos tell Huracán: Lorenzo Scipioni is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief

27 Edition

The Huracán Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words at Huracán training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Gil 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Huracán

Ignacio Pussetto 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Guillermo Enrique

“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.

The dugout

The manager makes Federico Vera a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Huracán. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

Lucas Ortíz wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Huracán will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout

Máximo Palazzo 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 Huracán, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

26 Edition

The Huracán Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words at Huracán training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Enrique 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.

Squad

Leandro Lescano 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 Huracán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Patricio Pizarro

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patricio Pizarro, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Guillermo Enrique 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 Huracán, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Loan watch

Sebastián Ramírez keeps scoring at Tristán Suárez

10 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad

“I want to play”: Patricio Pizarro speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief

24 Edition

The Huracán Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

No deal for Jano Gordon at that price

Huracán offered $2.5M; Vélez said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

The step up is real for Lautaro Mora

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Huracán to Facundo Quintana

The clock did what Defensa y Justicia would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Squad

A row about effort at Huracán

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Gil was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Huracán

Martín Nervo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Huracán are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Luca Babino

“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.

The dugout

Jordy Caicedo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Huracán will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

36 months and counting on Rodrigo Cabral

Still no offer on the table, and Rodrigo Cabral’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief

22 Edition

The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A row about effort at Central Córdoba SdE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Barrera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Central Córdoba SdE

Fernando Martínez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yuri Casermeiro

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yuri Casermeiro, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Leonardo Sequeira 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 Central Córdoba SdE, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Lucas Varaldo's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Alan Laprida has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Central Córdoba SdE will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

21 Edition

The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Yuri Casermeiro: 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.” Central Córdoba SdE have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Yoel Gerez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yoel Gerez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Central Córdoba SdE the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words at Central Córdoba SdE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Barrera 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Luciano Acosta

Central Córdoba SdE asked and Palmeiras said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Nadir Sánchez 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 Central Córdoba SdE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Central Córdoba SdE try to borrow Tomás Belmonte

Boca Juniors have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Gabriel Grando is in the works

Central Córdoba SdE have made the call to Grêmio. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Leonardo Sequeira 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.

The dugout

Felipe Aguilar 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.

In brief

17 Edition

The Huracán Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Bruno Barticciotto keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Huracán may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Only the photograph left for Santiago Luján

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santiago Luján will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Huracán the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Martín Nervo 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 Huracán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Huracán training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Enrique 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 dugout

Nahuel Maldonado 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 dugout

When it matters, Daniel Zabala 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.

In brief

13 Edition

The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Central Córdoba SdE

9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The dugout

Matías Vera says Central Córdoba SdE went back on their word

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Yoel Gerez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yoel Gerez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Central Córdoba SdE the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Central Córdoba SdE to lose Yoel Gerez for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Yoel Gerez has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

A row about effort at Central Córdoba SdE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Barrera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Central Córdoba SdE

Ezequiel Naya and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Alan Aguerre 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.

Match

Vélez take the points off Central Córdoba SdE

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Central Córdoba SdE keep their word to Leonardo Sequeira

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

12 Edition

The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Central Córdoba SdE

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Central Córdoba SdE

Position 14 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

Real improvement from Agustín Romero at Central Córdoba SdE

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Agustín Romero is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Central Córdoba SdE

Santiago Moyano 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.

Squad

Michael Santos reaches 100 goals

100 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.

Squad

Diego Barrera 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Central Córdoba SdE against Instituto

1‑2 to Instituto, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ezequiel Naya

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezequiel Naya, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Alan Aguerre is still paying for one afternoon at Central Córdoba SdE

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Leonardo Sequeira knocks on the manager’s door
  • The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Alan Aguerre
5 Edition

The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alan Aguerre decides it from twelve yards

3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Cup progress for Central Córdoba SdE

A 2‑2 win over Belgrano, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Leonardo Marchi asks to leave Central Córdoba SdE

“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.

Market

Central Córdoba SdE turn down Istanbulspor for Lucas Varaldo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Words exchanged at Central Córdoba SdE

Santiago Moyano 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Leonardo Sequeira

“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.

Match

Central Córdoba SdE come up short against Newell's Old Boys

Newell's Old Boys left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match

Belgrano snatch it back from Central Córdoba SdE

A goal on 115 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Player ratings

Lucas Varaldo misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

In brief

3 Edition

The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Joaquín Flores, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Santiago Moyano 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 Central Córdoba SdE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Central Córdoba SdE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Barrera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Central Córdoba SdE refuse to lose to Unión de Santa Fe

A point taken on 89 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Match

Central Córdoba SdE and Unión de Santa Fe take a point apiece

It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Carlos Alberto Méndez on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Carlos Alberto Méndez after the 3‑3 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Leonardo Sequeira does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Fernando Martínez

Chances created: 8. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

Squad

The first one for Joaquín Flores

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Central Córdoba SdE have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

In brief