Pío Bonacci

Striker - Madryn
20 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Pío Bonacci

22 Edition

The Madryn Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Diego Martínez breaks a bone — 69 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Camilo Machado keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Madryn may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Pío Bonacci 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 Madryn can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Erik Núñez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Madryn is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Marcelo Meli 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 Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Nicolás Barrientos 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.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The Madryn Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Diego Martínez breaks a bone — 90 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Alejandro Gutiérrez says Madryn went back on their word

“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.

Market

Pablo Achaval puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Madryn, and it is not being withdrawn.

In brief

5 Edition

The Madryn Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $2.7M sale of Juan Peinipil

He is going to Braga, the club has $2.7M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Madryn sell Juan Peinipil for $2.7M

Juan Peinipil has left for Braga in a $2.7M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Rodrigo Carrizo 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 Madryn can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Madryn

Marcelo Meli 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.

Squad

Words at Madryn training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pío Bonacci 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.

Squad

Madryn pick somebody else ahead of Federico Recalde

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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Madryn Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nicolás Servetto scores twice — 8.61

Two goals and a mark of 8.61 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Rodrigo Ayala wants European nights

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Madryn

Marcelo Meli 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 ratings

Gabriel Gudiño runs at them all day

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.

Match

Nicolás Servetto sends Madryn past Güemes

It finished 2‑0, and it was Nicolás Servetto’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Madryn.

Squad

Facundo Giacopuzzi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Facundo Giacopuzzi commits to Madryn for another 3 years.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Yvo Calleros

Marked 8.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market

The clock runs on Víctor Cabrera's contract

24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad

Words at Madryn training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pío Bonacci 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.

In brief