Marked for Nicolás Campos
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Atenas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Matías González is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Brian González
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Brian González has come out of that comparison in the side, and Atenas have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Atenas
Brian González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nicolás Campos pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Agustín Torres has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Atenas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Atenas have made Agustín Torres available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Brian Gimenez 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 Brian Gimenez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Questions about Agustín Navarro on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.