Marked for Eugenio Raggio
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Oct 2030
There were 10 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.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Defensive actions: 34, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market14 Oct 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Platense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market14 Oct 2030
“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.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match12 Oct 2030
4 matches without a win for Platense
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Platense are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Oct 2030
Juan Saborido 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 ratings14 Oct 2030
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market2 Sep 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Platense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market2 Sep 2030
“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.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“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.
Player ratings2 Sep 2030
Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match31 Aug 2030
Whatever happens, Platense do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad2 Sep 2030
Juan Saborido 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 ratings2 Sep 2030
A defender's afternoon for Tomás Silva
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings2 Sep 2030
A performance of 9.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Loan watch2 Sep 2030
“I did not go to Belgrano to sit and watch. I want to come back to Platense and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 36 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Market12 Aug 2030
“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.
Market12 Aug 2030
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Platense have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad12 Aug 2030
Lautaro Vera: 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.” Platense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Aug 2030
Lautaro Vera has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Platense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Aug 2030
Maximiliano Amarfil 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 ratings12 Aug 2030
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match10 Aug 2030
Whatever happens, Platense do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings12 Aug 2030
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Aug 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Pablo Goicochea, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Market5 Aug 2030
“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 Platense, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Aug 2030
Only the photograph left for Santiago Vera
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santiago Vera will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Platense the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Aug 2030
“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.
Squad5 Aug 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Aug 2030
Marked 8.95 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match3 Aug 2030
San Lorenzo made Platense work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad5 Aug 2030
The manager makes an example of Agustín Ocampo
“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.
Player ratings5 Aug 2030
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Nicolás Figal knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Platense, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Player ratings6 May 2030
Defensive actions: 31. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad6 May 2030
Maximiliano Amarfil 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.
Match4 May 2030
Whatever happens, Platense do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings6 May 2030
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch6 May 2030
“I watch every Platense game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Belgrano runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad6 May 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fausto San Pedro, and the manager let it.
Squad6 May 2030
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Platense have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Player ratings6 May 2030
Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings6 May 2030
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Upbeat
Match20 Apr 2030
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad22 Apr 2030
The match ball belongs to Jorge De Asis, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market22 Apr 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Platense can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Apr 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Marked 9.82 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad22 Apr 2030
“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 ratings22 Apr 2030
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Nicolás Figal knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Platense, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Apr 2030
A one-man rearguard from Andrés Sosa
There were 8 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.
Player ratings8 Apr 2030
Defensive actions: 29, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad8 Apr 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Apr 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Agustín Ocampo and Platense agree another 2 years.
Player ratings8 Apr 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings8 Apr 2030
Marked 8.79 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad8 Apr 2030
“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.
Player ratings8 Apr 2030
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match6 Apr 2030
It finished 1‑0, and it was Jorge De Asis’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Platense.
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Uneasy
Match2 Mar 2030
No end in sight to Platense's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Platense has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings4 Mar 2030
Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market4 Mar 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Platense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad4 Mar 2030
Juan Saborido 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 ratings4 Mar 2030
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad4 Mar 2030
“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 ratings4 Mar 2030
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad4 Mar 2030
Nicolás Figal knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Platense, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings4 Mar 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Nov 2029
Pablo Ferreira: 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.” Platense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Nov 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ramiro Alderete will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Platense the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Nov 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Nov 2029
Mauro Isopi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Platense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Nov 2029
Juan Saborido 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.
Squad5 Nov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match13 Oct 2029
12 matches without a win for Platense
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Platense are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Oct 2029
A one-man rearguard from Andrés Sosa
There were 6 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.
Squad15 Oct 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Platense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad15 Oct 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Oct 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Pablo Goicochea commits to Platense for another 3 years.
Player ratings15 Oct 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings15 Oct 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings15 Oct 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings15 Oct 2029
Shots: 9. 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match22 Sep 2029
9 matches without a win for Platense
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Platense are no longer polite ones.
Squad24 Sep 2029
A one-man rearguard from Andrés Sosa
There were 7 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.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Juan Saborido 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 ratings24 Sep 2029
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad24 Sep 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pablo Ferreira, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match15 Sep 2029
The wait goes on for Platense
8 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.
Squad17 Sep 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Sep 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 ratings17 Sep 2029
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Loan watch17 Sep 2029
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Platense, and 2 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings17 Sep 2029
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.47 on the card, and the Platense support went home talking about one name.
Match15 Sep 2029
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Defensa y Justicia came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market17 Sep 2029
The Andrés Sosa talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Platense know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Market13 Aug 2029
Mauro Isopi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Platense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Juan Saborido 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.
Match11 Aug 2029
Whatever happens, Platense do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad13 Aug 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Pablo Goicochea, and the manager let it.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Jorge De Asis 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 Jorge De Asis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Steady
Squad25 Jun 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Platense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market25 Jun 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.
Squad25 Jun 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market25 Jun 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Platense have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad25 Jun 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Sumavil, and the manager let it.
Market25 Jun 2029
Belgrano are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Platense will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Market7 May 2029
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Platense heard it as anything else.
Squad7 May 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Guido Mainero and Platense agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 May 2029
Franco Zapiola 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Defensive actions: 36, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Defensive actions: 29, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad30 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fernando Juárez, and the manager let it.
The terraces30 Apr 2029
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Steady
Market22 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 Platense can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Jan 2029
67 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad22 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.