Marked for Paul Ortíz
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings12 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market12 Mar 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 The request is on a desk at Miramar Misiones, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match10 Mar 2029
No end in sight to Miramar Misiones's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Miramar Misiones has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 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 Miramar Misiones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Mar 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings12 Mar 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad12 Mar 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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Paul Ortíz 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.
Player ratings12 Mar 2029
Shots: 6, 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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Crisis
Squad12 Feb 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nahuel Gelos and Miramar Misiones agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Feb 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 Miramar Misiones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Feb 2029
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market12 Feb 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Feb 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Feb 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Feb 2029
As if he never left: Rodrigo Godoy returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Rodrigo Godoy is a Miramar Misiones player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Match10 Feb 2029
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad12 Feb 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Timofey Yurasov, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market6 Nov 2028
“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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
“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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emiliano Saliadarre and Miramar Misiones agree another 4 years.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Bryan Cortés 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
35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Market6 Nov 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Emiliano Saliadarre’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market6 Nov 2028
7 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Miramar Misiones money.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Jun 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Miramar Misiones may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Santiago Corbo 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.
Match10 Jun 2028
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 Jun 2028
Marked 9.00 — 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.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match10 Jun 2028
A 1‑0 win over Danubio, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Match24 Apr 2028
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match22 Apr 2028
No end in sight to Miramar Misiones's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Miramar Misiones has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
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 Apr 2028
Emiliano Saliadarre 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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Santiago Corbo
“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.
Match22 Apr 2028
0‑1 to Montevideo City Torque, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Miramar Misiones, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
A mark of 5.64 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.