A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
The words a physio says slowly. 41 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.
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Miramar Misiones they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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.
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.
Nothing resets a career like somebody arriving who did not pick the side last season. Emiliano Saliadarre has taken the hint, and Miramar Misiones are getting a version of him the previous regime had stopped seeing.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Paul Ortíz has his answer from Miramar Misiones; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
The dugoutCamilo Cuello asks for a word with the manager
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
11 clean sheets from 24 appearances at Oriental. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Miramar Misiones will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Something was said to Ayrton Castro and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
7 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.
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Liverpool Montevideo keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cerro Largo have kept their man, and Miramar Misiones go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
Plaza Colonia have accepted the money. What Miramar Misiones do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Miramar Misiones have done the hard part with Defensor Sporting, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
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.
Maximiliano Zelaya 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.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of Ayrton Castro
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Miramar Misiones is running low.
“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.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Miramar Misiones have done the hard part with River Plate, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Central Espanol have kept their man, and Miramar Misiones go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Maximiliano Caetano 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Argüello was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Lucas Berrueta is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Position 13 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
11 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Tacuarembo were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Maximiliano Caetano 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Fabricio Tirado has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Marked 8.24 — 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Argüello was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
11 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.
Defensor Sporting go through and Miramar Misiones go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
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.
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Argüello was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
8 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.
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.
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 86. Oriental had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Position 14, 5 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Federico Sansone and Miramar Misiones agree another 3 years.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emiliano Saliadarre 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.
Position 14 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
7 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.
Maximiliano Caetano 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Miramar Misiones have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Mateo Argüello 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.
8.38. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Rampla Juniors scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Corbo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A 2‑2 draw with Rampla Juniors leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Ramon Torres was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Miramar Misiones dressing room was either.
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Maximiliano Caetano 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Santiago Corbo has his answer from Miramar Misiones; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
0‑4 against Plaza Colonia, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Corbo 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.
0‑3 to Uruguay Montevideo, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Mateo Argüello 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andres Ramirez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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.
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lucas Zeballos scored, was marked 7.77, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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.
12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
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.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ramon Torres after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Óscar Díaz scored, was marked 7.78, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jhony da Silva and Miramar Misiones agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ramon Torres after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Argüello was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ramon Torres after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Bruno Serrón has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Rentistas next, and one man in the Miramar Misiones dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ramon Torres after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Camilo Cuello is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
8 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.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Miramar Misiones have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jose Araujo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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.
Bruno Serrón 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Argüello was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Federico Acosta trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Mateo Argüello 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Corbo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“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.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Miramar Misiones will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Mateo Argüello 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauricio Lacerda 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.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Miramar Misiones will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Miramar Misiones will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Maximiliano Caetano 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Argüello was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Miramar Misiones, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Rossi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcelo Diaz has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Camilo Lopez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Ferreira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Miramar Misiones ran out of time with Montevideo City Torque. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Corbo 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.
In brief
The dugoutBruno Serrón knocks on the manager’s door
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Miramar Misiones will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
Central Espanol have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Miramar Misiones have made the call to Fenix. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
“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.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Federico Sansone has written the date down.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Miramar Misiones will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Corbo 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.
Miramar Misiones have made the call to Central Espanol. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
“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.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Miramar Misiones will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Everything agreed with Central Espanol, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mauricio Lacerda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“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.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Miramar Misiones. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Miramar Misiones will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Miramar Misiones have done the hard part with Argentinos Juniors, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Estudiantes have kept their man, and Miramar Misiones go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
Miramar Misiones have made the call to Racing. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Miramar Misiones lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Miramar Misiones will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Mateo Argüello 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Sansone 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.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes Bruno Serrón a promise
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Miramar Misiones lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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 manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marcos Ferreira has his answer from Miramar Misiones; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Maximiliano Caetano 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.
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 easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Berrueta and Miramar Misiones agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
“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.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Mateo Argüello 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.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Bruno Serrón 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Miramar Misiones. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
“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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Maximiliano Caetano and Miramar Misiones agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Sansone was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Mateo Argüello 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.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Juan Bado has his answer from Miramar Misiones; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Miramar Misiones. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
14 new faces, and Miramar Misiones are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Sansone 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.
“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.
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.
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.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Mateo Argüello 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 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.
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emiliano Saliadarre was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad31 Aug 2026
14 new faces, and Miramar Misiones are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Ramon Torres left the room before anybody could ask which.
Progreso next, and one man in the Miramar Misiones dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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.
Maximiliano Caetano 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.
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.
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 89. Racing had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
“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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Ramon Torres chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Plaza Colonia go through and Miramar Misiones go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Mateo Argüello 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.
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Ramon Torres chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Sansone was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Nobody at Miramar Misiones is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Played out of position, hooked on the hour, asked to be somebody he is not — the details vary and the mood does not. Miramar Misiones have a player doing his work under protest.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Camilo Cuello and Miramar Misiones agree another 4 years.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Facundo Coates is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rodrigo Mendez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kevin Rossi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Rivera has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager’s verdict
SquadWords at Miramar Misiones training over how hard people work
The dugoutCamilo Cuello knocks on the manager's door
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jhony da Silva and Miramar Misiones agree another 2 years.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Argüello was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
19 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ramon Torres after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Miramar Misiones has been clear about where Álex de Freitas stands, which is more than many ever get.