Marked for Gabriel Risso Patrón
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market19 Jul 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Colón people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market19 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market19 Jul 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.
The dugout19 Jul 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Temperley keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad19 Jul 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.
Match17 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Colón
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market19 Jul 2027
Santino Sciacqua has left for Instituto in a $120.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Colón
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Talpone was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
Market12 Jul 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 The request is on a desk at Colón, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Colón
Matías Budiño and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Jul 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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Matías Godoy 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.
Match10 Jul 2027
A 1‑0 win over Estudiantes, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Loan watch12 Jul 2027
“I watch every Colón game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Paysandu runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Loan watch12 Jul 2027
The goals keep arriving from Nahuel Ciro’s exile
10 goals in 13 games at Nova Iguaçu — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Colón updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Marked 7.67 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Colón had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Pedro De Luca kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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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
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.
Match5 Jun 2027
7 matches without a win for Colón
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Colón are no longer polite ones.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Leandro Allende: 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.” Colón have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.63 for the rest of it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Colón
Matías Budiño 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 dugout7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín Toledo, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Nicolás Talpone 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.
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Crisis
Market31 May 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.
Match29 May 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.
Squad31 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.
Squad31 May 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.
The dugout31 May 2027
Matías Godoy 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.
Match29 May 2027
A bad afternoon for Colón against Morón
0‑1 to Morón, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout31 May 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout31 May 2027
Matías Budiño 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
The dugout24 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Colón may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match22 May 2027
5 matches without a win for Colón
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Colón are no longer polite ones.
Squad24 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.
Squad24 May 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 dugout24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Budiño, and the manager let it.
Loan watch24 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 3 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout24 May 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Market24 May 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Colón has been clear about where Bautista Maillier stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Colón
Matías Budiño 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Nicolás Talpone 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Loan watch5 Apr 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 4 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Federico Rasmussen. Colón will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout5 Apr 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.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Half-satisfied: Pedro De Luca on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match3 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Deportivo Armenio will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Market29 Mar 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.
The dugout29 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Colón
Matías Budiño and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Colón
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Godoy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout29 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.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I watch every Colón game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Shenzhen Peng City runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Colón told Alan Bonansea something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Nicolás Nagel, 20, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Colón would like this to lead.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“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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Upbeat
Match6 Feb 2027
The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Matías Godoy decided nobody was going anywhere. Agropecuario Argentino had no time left to answer.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Colón have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market8 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
An order from above at Colón: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Market8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Colón
Federico Rasmussen 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Colón
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Colón
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Castet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Lautaro Crispino out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colón will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Belgrano waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Colón is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market7 Dec 2026
Trujillanos 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Lucas Picech
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucas Picech will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Colón the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Colón
Matías Budiño and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market7 Dec 2026
The name of Nahuel Curcio has come up in conversations Colón were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Facundo Castet
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yéiler Góez 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.
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Steady
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Colón may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
An order from above at Colón: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Colón
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Rasmussen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Colón
Ignacio Antonio 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
246% 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 dugout2 Nov 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Matías Budiño'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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“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 6 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Yéiler Góez 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Nicolás Utrera
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Colón will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Colón are still strangers to each other
23 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Facundo Castet 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 Facundo Castet trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
8 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Steady
Squad7 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 Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jorge Sanguina commits to Colón for another 4 years.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yéiler Góez 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
59 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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 watch7 Sep 2026
“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 0 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Facundo Castet 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.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Colón take on the side everybody is chasing
Chacarita Juniors arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Chacarita Juniors next, and one man in the Colón dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.