Marked for Benjamín Rojas
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market2 Jul 2029
“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 The request is on a desk at UAI Urquiza, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market2 Jul 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around UAI Urquiza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout2 Jul 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” UAI Urquiza may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
The deal with Ferrocarril Midland is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
No thanks: Nahuel Losada rejects the move
UAI Urquiza had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Lanús, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Benjamín Ortíz 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.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
Rosario Central wanted more than $160.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Luciano Arcuri 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.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad2 Apr 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Benjamín Rojas
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. UAI Urquiza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at UAI Urquiza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benjamín Ortíz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
“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.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
Something was said to Tomás Asprea and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad2 Apr 2029
The captaincy has been taken off Nicolás Fernández. UAI Urquiza will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market2 Apr 2029
“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.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
Luciano Arcuri 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 Luciano Arcuri trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead2 Apr 2029
Fénix next, and one man in the UAI Urquiza dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Squad26 Mar 2029
Benjamín Rojas damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Fernando Prado pops up at the right end — 7.74
7.74, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Benjamín Ortíz 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.
Boardroom26 Mar 2029
The numbers do not look good at UAI Urquiza
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Luciano Arcuri 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 dugout26 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Match24 Mar 2029
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
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The dugout
Luciano Arcuri asks for a word with the manager
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Milton Leyendeker dropped after a run of poor form
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Mar 2029
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. UAI Urquiza lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match13 Mar 2029
A 1‑0 win over Gimnasia y Tiro, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
A defender's goal wins it for UAI Urquiza — 7.65
1 for Nahuel Ríos, marked 7.65, 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.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Nahuel Ríos 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 UAI Urquiza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Arcuri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces19 Mar 2029
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
“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 ratings19 Mar 2029
Ninety minutes of Nicolás Fernández at his very best
Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at UAI Urquiza.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match10 Mar 2029
20 matches without a win, and then this, against Dock Sud. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Benjamín Rojas damages knee ligaments — 42 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 42 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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Luciano Arcuri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings12 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benjamín Ortíz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces12 Mar 2029
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match10 Mar 2029
Dock Sud made UAI Urquiza work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match6 Mar 2029
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
The manager makes an example of Antonio Roble
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match3 Mar 2029
19 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Benjamín Rojas damages knee ligaments — 50 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 50 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.
Player ratings5 Mar 2029
Two goals and a mark of 8.47 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicolás Fernández commits to UAI Urquiza for another 4 years.
Squad5 Mar 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at UAI Urquiza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Arcuri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Mar 2029
The manager makes an example of Emanuel Ibáñez
“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 dugout5 Mar 2029
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Jorge Moretti to a room that had heard them before.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match24 Feb 2029
18 matches without a win for UAI Urquiza
The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around UAI Urquiza are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Feb 2029
57 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. UAI Urquiza lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Nahuel Ríos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom26 Feb 2029
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at UAI Urquiza now.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Luciano Arcuri 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 terraces26 Feb 2029
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout26 Feb 2029
“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 ratings26 Feb 2029
A mark of 7.54, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad26 Feb 2029
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match17 Feb 2029
17 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Benjamín Rojas damages knee ligaments — 64 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 64 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.
Player ratings19 Feb 2029
Nahuel Ríos pops up at the right end — 7.99
7.99, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Franco Yennerich: 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.” UAI Urquiza have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings19 Feb 2029
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Luciano Arcuri 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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Benjamín Ortíz 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 dugout19 Feb 2029
The manager makes an example of Franco Pulian
“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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
The medical room confirms 65 days on the sidelines for Samir Meza, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match10 Feb 2029
16 matches without a win for UAI Urquiza
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around UAI Urquiza are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Benjamín Rojas damages knee ligaments — 71 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 71 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.
Match10 Feb 2029
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Benjamín Ortíz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Arcuri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Carlos Rolón, and the manager let it.
Match10 Feb 2029
0‑1 to Comunicaciones, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Feb 2029
13 new faces, and UAI Urquiza 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.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Jorge Moretti to a room that had heard them before.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Feb 2029
15 matches without a win for UAI Urquiza
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around UAI Urquiza are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Benjamín Rojas damages knee ligaments — 78 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 78 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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” UAI Urquiza may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Nahuel Ríos 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.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Arcuri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match3 Feb 2029
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
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Crisis
Squad29 Jan 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Benjamín Rojas
85 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. UAI Urquiza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom29 Jan 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at UAI Urquiza
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at UAI Urquiza is running low.
Market29 Jan 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market29 Jan 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what UAI Urquiza can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Luciano Arcuri 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.
Boardroom29 Jan 2029
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at UAI Urquiza now.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Benjamín Ortíz 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 dugout29 Jan 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at UAI Urquiza, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market29 Jan 2029
The Nahuel Ríos story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nahuel Ríos signs something — a contract at UAI Urquiza or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Crisis
Squad22 Jan 2029
93 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. UAI Urquiza lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Benjamín Ortíz 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.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Arcuri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom22 Jan 2029
Wages swallow 91% of the UAI Urquiza 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 dugout22 Jan 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Augusto Kalayda, and the manager let it.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
“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.
Market22 Jan 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luciano Arcuri’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tomas Altamirano is on it.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
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 Nicolás Repetto has written the date down.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad15 Jan 2029
101 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. UAI Urquiza lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Nahuel Ríos 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Arcuri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets15 Jan 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. San Martín SJ have kept their man, and UAI Urquiza go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Too much change too quickly at UAI Urquiza
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of David Juárez
“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 dugout15 Jan 2029
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.
Market15 Jan 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nicolás Fernández’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Crisis
Squad8 Jan 2029
Benjamín Rojas damages knee ligaments — 108 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 108 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.
Market8 Jan 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what UAI Urquiza can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Jan 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at UAI Urquiza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Words at UAI Urquiza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamín Ortíz 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.
Transfer targets8 Jan 2029
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Jan 2029
The formation has left Franco Álvarez behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. UAI Urquiza will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
The manager has not finished forgetting Milton Leyendeker's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market8 Jan 2029
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at UAI Urquiza, another week without a signature from Fernando Prado.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad1 Jan 2029
Benjamín Rojas damages knee ligaments — 115 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 115 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.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at UAI Urquiza
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at UAI Urquiza is running low.
Market1 Jan 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Jan 2029
A move Franco Pulian would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Franco Pulian is living that version at UAI Urquiza, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $9.5K of what UAI Urquiza paid for Rodrigo Bernal is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Luciano Arcuri 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.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at UAI Urquiza now.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Deportivo Armenio have kept their man, and UAI Urquiza go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market1 Jan 2029
Argentino de Merlo paid $14.0K and UAI Urquiza took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
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Crisis
Squad6 Nov 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Emiliano Di María
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. UAI Urquiza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match4 Nov 2028
No end in sight to UAI Urquiza's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at UAI Urquiza has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Luciano Arcuri 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Benjamín Rojas gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Benjamín Rojas has just signed for UAI Urquiza, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Benjamín Ortíz 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 ratings6 Nov 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
Nobody left the UAI Urquiza dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Loan watch6 Nov 2028
27 appearances at Nova Iguaçu and the goals have stopped going in. UAI Urquiza lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.