Marked for Emmanuel Ojeda
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match22 May 2027
It had gone 21 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Market24 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 The request is on a desk at Huracán, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout24 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Huracán may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Age has not caught Leonardo Gil yet — 7.99
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.99 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market24 May 2027
Milton Ríos has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Huracán they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 May 2027
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.
The terraces24 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Óscar Cortés has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match22 May 2027
Tristán Suárez made Huracán work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad24 May 2027
A falling-out at Huracán
Emmanuel Ojeda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Huracán
6 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Leandro Lescano 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Huracán told Rodrigo Fernández something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Leonardo Gil is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.54, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Luis Alberto De Luca after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Steady
Match22 Sep 2026
Huracán bow out of the cup
Boca Juniors go through and Huracán go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Huracán is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Cristian Núñez 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 dugout28 Sep 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 Sep 2026
Juan Bisanz 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Luis Alberto De Luca chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.