The Quilmes Chronicle
Market3 Aug 2026
Thomas Ortega hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Quilmes can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ramiro Luna
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Marinelli signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gonzalo Marinelli commits to Quilmes for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Quilmes
Gonzalo Marinelli 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of José Barreto
“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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Máximo Paredes in the eights
A performance of 8.64 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Quilmes has picked up the phone to Ramiro Luna
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Match1 Aug 2026
Quilmes share the spoils with Alvarado
A 1‑1 draw with Alvarado leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
The one thing Agustín Lavezzi could not do
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
- Squad Thomas Ortega knocks on the manager's door
- Market The clock does Thomas Ortega’s negotiating for him
- Market Cristóbal Valbuena leaves for nothing