The Defensa y Justicia Post
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Mateo Aguiar, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market10 Aug 2026
Darío Cáceres has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Defensa y Justicia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Darío Cáceres has agreed to leave Defensa y Justicia for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Damián Fernández signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Damián Fernández commits to Defensa y Justicia for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Defensa y Justicia
Aarón Molinas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Aarón Molinas runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Defensa y Justicia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Éver Banega 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Defensa y Justicia beat the market to Álvaro Ocampo from Belgrano
Belgrano will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Álvaro Ocampo has pre-agreed a move to Defensa y Justicia, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mateo Aguiar
At 19 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.
In brief
- Match Juan Manuel Gutiérrez sends Defensa y Justicia past Gimnasia y Esgrima
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ayrton Portillo
- Market Defensa y Justicia and Aarón Molinas are talking past each other