Marked for Nicolás Chaves
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Rodrigo Bogarín 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Orlando Pirates have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Elías Bacre. The answer from Aldosivi has not changed — yet.
The dugout1 Feb 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Aldosivi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Lautaro Chávez 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 ahead1 Feb 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Elías López’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Aldosivi needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Matías Morello keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Aldosivi say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes Lucas Acosta a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Aldosivi. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Back issues
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Steady
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Leonardo Sigali: 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.” Aldosivi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market30 Nov 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 The request is on a desk at Aldosivi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Lucas Acosta 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 Aldosivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Aldosivi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elías López, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Aldosivi told Nicolás Chaves something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Aldosivi
Lucas Acosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tomás Fernández. 1‑0 against Atlético Tucumán, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Elías López 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.87 on the card, and the Aldosivi support went home talking about one name.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
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.” Eduardo Otero kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Market9 Nov 2026
Leandro Sosa is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Aldosivi has been clear about where Leandro Sosa stands, which is more than many ever get.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Shots: 12. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
13 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Federico Gino has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Aldosivi will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Aldosivi
Lucas Acosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Cordero
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Matías Morello 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 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nicolás Chaves 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 Nicolás Chaves trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Lucas Acosta’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Aldosivi needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes Lucas Acosta a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Aldosivi. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Elías Bacre has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Aldosivi will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Matías Morello keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Aldosivi say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Lucas Acosta 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 Aldosivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Tomás Fernández did the work nobody counts — 6.74
15 combined actions and 6.74. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Aldosivi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías López 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Rodrigo González at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aldosivi.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tomás Fernández named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Tomás Fernández is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match3 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Banfield leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: Eduardo Otero on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Aldosivi have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Federico Gino
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
Aldosivi make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Aldosivi have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lucas Acosta 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 Sep 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Rodrigo Márquez — 7.88
Marked 7.88. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rodrigo Márquez. 2‑1 against Gimnasia La Plata, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Elías López 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Chaves, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
16 new faces, and Aldosivi are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.” Eduardo Otero kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.