Marked for Thiago Calone
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ricardo Blanco damages knee ligaments — 111 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 111 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at All Boys
Iván Zafarana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 158% of everything All Boys 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at All Boys training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Axel Abet 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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every All Boys game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FAC Wien runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Gustavo Turraca
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Gustavo Turraca has come out of that comparison in the side, and All Boys have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Thiago Calone has written the date down.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
132 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. All Boys lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nicolás Carrizo 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Lucas Cano
“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
Axel Abet 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 had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at All Boys, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clock does Nicolás Carrizo’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee All Boys could ask drops and the wages Nicolás Carrizo can ask rise.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Alvarado next, and one man in the All Boys dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Juan Pablo Noce keeps appearing in other people's back pages. All Boys say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ricardo Blanco
139 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. All Boys lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's goal wins it for All Boys — 7.91
1 for Gabriel Ramírez, marked 7.91, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at All Boys
Nicolás Carrizo 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether All Boys can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Madryn made All Boys work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 175% of the All Boys income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ulises Delgado 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
153 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. All Boys lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Thiago Calone: 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.” All Boys have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 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 All Boys this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at All Boys
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Axel Abet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Matías Nouet
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Arsenal leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nicolás Carrizo 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.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.18, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at All Boys
Nicolás Carrizo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Thiago Calone wants continental football; whether All Boys can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 3‑1 win over Racing, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ulises Delgado 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Claudio Campostrini, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Augusto Saravia, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.00, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ricardo Blanco commits to All Boys for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at All Boys
Nicolás Carrizo 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Gustavo Turraca wants continental football; whether All Boys can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at All Boys
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Barrientos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Lucas Cano's contract
36 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.