Marked for Ramiro Macagno
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
Bruno Fuchs 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 dugout19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alejo Osella, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
José Florentín 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 dugout19 Apr 2027
Kevin Vázquez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Independiente Rivadavia 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.
Market19 Apr 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Álex Arce’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Looking ahead19 Apr 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Sarmiento in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Looking ahead19 Apr 2027
Looking ahead: Sarmiento at home
A side in position 13 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Ramiro Macagno makes the division’s eleven — 6.51
Marked 6.51, and picked in the team of the week for it. He was the best player on that pitch and the selectors saw the same match everybody else did.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match27 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Argentinos Juniors, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Bruno Fuchs 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefano Moreyra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to José Florentín, and the manager let it.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Leandro Lescano did the work nobody counts — 6.66
9 combined actions and 6.66. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Gregorio Rodríguez 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.
Squad16 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Niv Eliasi
“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 dugout16 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 Levadiakos, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Olympiacos in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Giannis Kosti’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
Ramiro Macagno’s loan is measured in nothing happening
6 clean sheets from 12 appearances at Independiente Rivadavia. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Levadiakos. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market16 Nov 2026
The shop window has Lucas in it
Levadiakos have let the market know Lucas can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Crisis
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Independiente Rivadavia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Iván Villalba 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximiliano Salas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Atlético Tucumán, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Emmanuel Gómez Riga 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Raúl Costa left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
River Plate next, and one man in the Independiente Rivadavia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Gregorio Rodríguez 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Agustín Urzi 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Giannis Theodosoulakis 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Giorgos Nikas
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Volos NPS leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Dimitrios Limnios was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Levadiakos dressing room was either.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Alexandru Pantea dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Asteras next, and one man in the Levadiakos dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Filip Obadović 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Moses Cobnan
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Volos NPS in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Marios Vichos’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.