The Villa San Carlos Post
Squad24 Aug 2026
15 saves: Pablo Bangardino was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 15 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match19 Aug 2026
Villa San Carlos through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Independiente Rivadavia, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Rodrigo Salinas yet — 8.00
At 40 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match22 Aug 2026
Villa San Carlos make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Villa San Carlos have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Villa San Carlos
Rodrigo Giménez 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Villa San Carlos find a way past UAI Urquiza
UAI Urquiza made Villa San Carlos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Kevin Pavía
“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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Sergio Gómez, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Danilo Gómez has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Villa San Carlos know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Villa San Carlos and Fernando Escobar
- The dugout Rodrigo Giménez knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Words at Villa San Carlos training over how hard people work