Marked for Ignacio Vallejos
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Vélez go through and Colegiales go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Franco Malagueño 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ignacio Vallejos 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
Late, late show earns Colegiales a point
Minute 91, against Quilmes, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Mateo Mamani gets it from the manager
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Half-satisfied: Felipe Luna 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Nobody at Colegiales is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Enzo Trinidad 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Los Andes, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Colegiales
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valentín Quevedo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.70 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Colegiales had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout17 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.” Felipe Luna, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Matías Ferreira
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.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Quilmes next, and one man in the Colegiales dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Lautaro Gordillo takes the afternoon — 8.74
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lautaro Gordillo provided it, and the 8.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Enzo Trinidad and Colegiales agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Enzo Trinidad 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emilio Di Fulvio, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ignacio Vallejos wants continental football; whether Colegiales can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Colegiales training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Malagueño 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Level with 89 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Colegiales had all but put away. Ferro Carril Oeste will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Enzo Trinidad’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Colegiales are still strangers to each other
19 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.