Marked for Marco Lambert
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Dec 2026
Chastening afternoon for Fénix
A 0‑3 beating by Villa Dálmine was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market14 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Fénix, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 42 days on the sidelines for Nicolás Gaitán, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Fénix have done the hard part with Platense, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Match12 Dec 2026
After 8 games, Fénix finally taste it again
The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Villa Dálmine; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Fénix
Marco Lambert 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.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Fénix asked and Atletico Bucaramanga said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Dec 2026
One of our own: Patrón joins the Fénix first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrón is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Iván Gorosito 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fénix may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market7 Dec 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Fénix
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
The deal with Boca Juniors is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Lucas Rancic beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad7 Dec 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 Fénix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Fénix
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Velazco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonathan Segura commits to Fénix for another 1 years.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Fénix
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fénix are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Fénix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Velazco 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.
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 Fénix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Sportivo Italiano left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ramiro Lobo, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Enzo Martínez after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Ramiro Lobo 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Iván Gorosito 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.