Marked for Sebastián Ramírez
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Julián Velázquez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Juan Cuevas 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
6.97, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Chacarita Juniors had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gastón Fernández, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 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 Chacarita Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Chacarita Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Favio Cabral 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 terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Maximiliano Meléndez 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sebastián Ramírez. 1‑0 against Almirante Brown, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.81, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Axel Guerra
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
Al-Ahli come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Huracán did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Martín Nervo 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Hernán Galíndez
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Óscar Cortés. 2‑0 against Barracas Central, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.33 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Juan Bisanz at his very best
Marked 8.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Huracán.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Facundo Waller 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Hernán Galíndez 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Huracán, another week without a signature from Cristian Núñez.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Naxxar Lions for Federico Losas 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.
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 Chacarita Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Chacarita Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Cuevas 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.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Temperley left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mario Sanabria and Chacarita Juniors agree another 3 years.