Marked for Tomás Pérez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 51. 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.
Match21 Apr 2027
0‑0 against Atlanta, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad26 Apr 2027
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Market26 Apr 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match24 Apr 2027
4 matches without a win for Racing Club
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Racing Club are no longer polite ones.
Match24 Apr 2027
4 matches without a goal for Racing Club
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikola Vasilj was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Matías Pérez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Looking ahead26 Apr 2027
The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Martín Barrios out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Racing Club have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Feb 2027
Alfonso Espino wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Racing Club hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Racing Club training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Vasilj 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Matías Pérez in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“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 dugout1 Feb 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ignacio Rodríguez is on it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Facundo Cambeses’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
$410.0K was the most the club would pay and Boca Juniors were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tomás Pérez is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikola Vasilj was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Matías Pérez 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Matías Daniele again, and this time the name on the line is Padova. Racing Club are listening politely and promising nothing.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Pérez, and the manager let it.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Matías Zaracho keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Racing Club say nothing, which says plenty.
Market11 Jan 2027
Still no offer on the table, and Santiago Quiros’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Crisis
Match21 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Dorados
Position 18 and 7 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dorados may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match19 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Dorados
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Dorados
Nicolás Barros Schelotto 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
The goals have deserted Dorados
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Dorados can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Dorados training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonel Miranda 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Queretaro left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Josué Reyes
“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.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
It had gone 14 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match23 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Dorados
Position 18 and 6 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Hugo Reyes 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 terraces23 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Tomás Pérez
At 20 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Sergio Rivas’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dorados.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.77 on the card, and the Dorados support went home talking about one name.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Angel Dos Santos on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Dorados
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Dorados are no longer polite ones.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a goal for Dorados
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Dorados
Nicolás Barros Schelotto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match31 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Dorados against Morelia
0‑2 to Morelia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomás Pérez, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Dorados are still strangers to each other
11 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Crisis
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing Club may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Sarmiento, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrés Vombergar, and the manager let it.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Racing Club dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Matko Miljevic 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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Racing Club game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Dorados runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout2 Nov 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 Federico Peralta left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Dorados
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Dorados are no longer polite ones.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑3 to Tijuana, 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Tomás Pérez
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Hugo Reyes in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dorados this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Dorados
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Dorados training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhon Acurio 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Dorados dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Dorados
20 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.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Dorados's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dorados has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Sep 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dorados this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Pumas UNAM, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Dorados training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhon Acurio 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonardo Vargas, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 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 1‑2 Angel Dos Santos left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tomás Pérez has had enough of the bench
“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 Dorados will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Uneasy
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 Dorados, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 26 in, 0 out at Dorados
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 26 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Everything agreed with Estudiantes, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Dorados
Nicolás Barros Schelotto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tigres have kept their man, and Dorados go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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
Words at Dorados training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhon Acurio 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The formation has left Tomás Pérez behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Dorados will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Dorados
20 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.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Central Norte are out and Racing Club go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match19 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Racing Club scored in the 96th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Bari for Elías Torres was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matías Pérez 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Dorados have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tomás Pérez. The answer from Racing Club has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matías Zaracho 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.61 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Racing Club had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.