Marked for Joaquín Gómez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
55 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parque del Plata lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Facundo Pareja 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Parque del Plata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Gómez 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 62 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 Oct 2026
Joaquín Gómez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Reymond de Morales 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ignacio Torres is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jorge Rios is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Ignacio Irisarri'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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
69 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Parque del Plata lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parque del Plata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michel Castro and Parque del Plata agree another 1 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 76 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Facundo Pareja 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Parque del Plata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Gómez 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.