Mateo Ortale

Right Back - Maipú
12 Nov 2026
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Marked for Mateo Ortale

14 Edition

The Maipú Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad2 Nov 2026

24 days out for Pochi after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Maipú will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom2 Nov 2026

The Maipú board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Maipú

Aron Agüero 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Maipú

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Heiz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom2 Nov 2026

182% of the income goes out in wages at Maipú

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Maipú count the cost of losing Joaquín Martínez

50 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Matías Viguet 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 Maipú, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Guillermo Rivas

“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.

Market2 Nov 2026

The Gastón Mansilla question follows Maipú around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gastón Mansilla’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Maipú Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Pochi out for 31 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Maipú will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words at Maipú training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Heiz 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Maipú

Juan Pablo Gobetto 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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Aron Agüero

“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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Too much change too quickly at Maipú

17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Matías Viguet 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 Matías Viguet trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

6 Edition

The Maipú Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Maipú

Nicolás Heiz 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Julián Vera stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Julián Vera and Maipú agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Luciano Arnijas 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.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Luciano Arnijas 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A step back for Juan Pablo Gobetto at Maipú

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Market7 Sep 2026

Talks stall between Maipú and Juan Pablo De la Reta

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Matías Viguet asks for a word with the manager

“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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Nicolás Fernández linked with a move away

The name of Nicolás Fernández keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Maipú say nothing, which says plenty.

Market7 Sep 2026

Still no signature from Mateo Ortale

4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Maipú could get for him.

In brief