Marked for Gabriel Risso Patrón
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Upbeat
Squad9 Oct 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rubén Duarte commits to Pumas UNAM for another 2 years.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Sebastián Córdova 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 ratings9 Oct 2028
Nobody could get near Pedro Vite
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Nathan Silva 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.
Match7 Oct 2028
1‑3 to Tigres, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Pablo Lara 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.47 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad28 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pumas UNAM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Aug 2028
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Gabriel Risso Patrón wants continental football; whether Pumas UNAM can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Words at Pumas UNAM training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rubén Duarte 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.
Match26 Aug 2028
A 2‑1 win over Guadalajara, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Aug 2028
“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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
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.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Pumas UNAM lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Nobody could get near Pedro Vite
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match29 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Pumas UNAM's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pumas UNAM has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Nobody could get near Pedro Vite
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pumas UNAM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Words at Pumas UNAM training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rubén Duarte 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad31 Jul 2028
It has nothing to do with his form and everything to do with how the squad was assembled. He will train all week with a group he is not permitted to play for, which is a strange way to spend a season.
Loan watch31 Jul 2028
“I watch every Pumas UNAM game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Queretaro runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match29 Jul 2028
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market31 Jul 2028
At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
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Uneasy
Market3 Jul 2028
Cheikh Niasse 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 Pumas UNAM hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Nathan Silva 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 Jul 2028
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Gabriel Risso Patrón wants continental football; whether Pumas UNAM can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Guillermo Martínez commits to Pumas UNAM for another 2 years.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Words at Pumas UNAM training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rubén Duarte 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Dinenno, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings29 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market29 May 2028
“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 Colón, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad29 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 May 2028
Federico Rasmussen 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.
Squad29 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Rasmussen, and the manager let it.
Squad29 May 2028
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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Steady
Player ratings1 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 54. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market1 May 2028
“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.
Squad1 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 May 2028
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad1 May 2028
Federico Rasmussen 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.
Squad1 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Alan Bonansea
“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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Steady
Squad27 Mar 2028
Federico Rasmussen damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Colón can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings27 Mar 2028
A brace, and Nahuel Curcio takes the afternoon — 8.47
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nahuel Curcio provided it, and the 8.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market27 Mar 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colón they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Colón
Julián Marcioni 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.
Boardroom27 Mar 2028
The numbers do not look good at Colón
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Budiño 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.
Match25 Mar 2028
Almirante Brown made Colón work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings27 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Feb 2028
Federico Rasmussen damages knee ligaments — 63 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 63 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.
Market28 Feb 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Colón can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Feb 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colón they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Colón
Julián Marcioni 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 ratings28 Feb 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
The numbers do not look good at Colón
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Budiño 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Alan Bonansea
“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 Feb 2028
14 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market15 Nov 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.
Market15 Nov 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Giménez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Colón the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Matías Godoy 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Budiño 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.
Market15 Nov 2027
The name of Franco García keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Colón say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A wage question at Colón
Matías Budiño 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.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
Julián Marcioni 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.
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
Agustín Menna has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colón they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Agustín Menna 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.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
Colón counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Colón now.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Matías Budiño 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Pier Barrios 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.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“I watch every Colón game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Yenisey runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market11 Oct 2027
The name of Matías Budiño keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Colón say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Market13 Sep 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colón is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Sep 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 Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pier Barrios 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Colón have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match11 Sep 2027
Nueva Chicago left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Risso Patrón, and the manager let it.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“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 Colón, and 13 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Match6 Sep 2027
Colón sink to position 16
33 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market6 Sep 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.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
A brace, and Julián Marcioni takes the afternoon — 7.80
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Julián Marcioni provided it, and the 7.80 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market6 Sep 2027
Iván Barbona has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colón they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Pier Barrios 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Julián Marcioni 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.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“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 Colón, and 0 appearances in 34 say he has earned the hearing.
Match4 Sep 2027
Godoy Cruz made Colón work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The team sheet said everything about Matías Godoy
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Matías Godoy.
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Uneasy
Match14 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Colón
13 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Matías Budiño 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 Colón can pretend not to have heard.
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.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market16 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colón is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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 Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pier Barrios 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
The goals have deserted Colón
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Colón can tell you which week it ends in.
Market16 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: Dinamo Tbilisi have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Iván Barbona. The answer from Colón has not changed — yet.
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Uneasy
Match7 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Colón's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Colón has to find a result from somewhere.
Match9 Aug 2027
Every point is an argument now for Colón
Position 16 and 27 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.
Market9 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 Colón, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Aug 2027
Business is business: Ignacio Lago goes
Panserraikos paid $960.0K and Colón took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market9 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colón is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Pier Barrios 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 Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Godoy 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Pier Barrios
“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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Uneasy
Market28 Jun 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 Colón can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match26 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Colón
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.
Market28 Jun 2027
Colón say no — this time
The offer from Alianza Atletico for Valentino Albornoz 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Pier Barrios 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 Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Jun 2027
Zahir Yunis has left for Huracán in a $490.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market28 Jun 2027
Defensa y Justicia pay $190.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Godoy 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 ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Market7 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 Colón, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The Colón board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Market7 Jun 2027
Ignacio Lago has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colón they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market7 Jun 2027
Tigres come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Colón did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Pier Barrios 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Matías Godoy 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
The goals have deserted Colón
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Colón can tell you which week it ends in.
Match5 Jun 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Market10 May 2027
Ignacio Lago has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colón they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match8 May 2027
4 matches without a win for Colón
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Colón are no longer polite ones.
Squad10 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 Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Federico Rasmussen 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.
Match8 May 2027
Godoy Cruz left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch10 May 2027
“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 Colón, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings10 May 2027
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.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Julián Marcioni
“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.
Squad10 May 2027
Alan Bonansea 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 Colón, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market3 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 Colón, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Matías Budiño 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 ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Rasmussen 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.
Match1 May 2027
The goals have deserted Colón
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Colón can tell you which week it ends in.
Match1 May 2027
0‑1 to Gimnasia y Esgrima, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 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.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I watch every Colón game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kapaz runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Loan watch3 May 2027
13 appearances at Sol de America and the goals keep coming. Colón are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Market29 Mar 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 Colón can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 Mar 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.
Market29 Mar 2027
Colón say no — this time
The offer from SJK for Iván Ojeda 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Matías Budiño 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
6 unbeaten for Colón
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Colón did not have in the autumn.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Pier Barrios 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Antonio, and the manager let it.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I watch every Colón game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kapaz runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Marked 7.70. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Steady
Market22 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colón is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Pier Barrios 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 ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Mar 2027
A 3‑2 win over Defensores, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Matías Godoy 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.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
145% of the income goes out in wages at Colón
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The terraces22 Mar 2027
Colón supporters have found a favourite in Iván Barbona
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Iván Barbona 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
Nobody wins at Colón
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 ratings22 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Market1 Mar 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 Colón can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market1 Mar 2027
Colón say no — this time
The offer from Yenisey for Jerónimo Buosi 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Pier Barrios 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 Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market1 Mar 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Julián Marcioni wants continental football; whether Colón can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Godoy 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 terraces1 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Darío Sarmiento 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.
Squad1 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Central Norte made Colón work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Uneasy
Market22 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 Colón, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market22 Feb 2027
Colón say no — this time
The offer from Irtysh for Iván Ojeda 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Colón
4 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Pier Barrios 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.
Market22 Feb 2027
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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Wages eat 146% of everything Colón earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Ignacio Antonio 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 ratings22 Feb 2027
Marked 7.75. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Metalist to sit and watch. I want to come back to Colón and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 1 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Market15 Feb 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 Colón can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market15 Feb 2027
Ignacio Lago has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colón they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Matías Budiño 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Pier Barrios 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Colón cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match13 Feb 2027
Mitre take the points off Colón
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Risso Patrón, and the manager let it.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Persita to sit and watch. I want to come back to Colón and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.