The Atlanta Post
Market7 Sep 2026
Mateo Ferrari hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlanta can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Atlanta
Leonel Galeano 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
Carlos Alberto Torres 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
Christian Bernardi 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Atlanta find a way past Güemes
Güemes made Atlanta work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market7 Sep 2026
Atlanta and Leonel Galeano are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Vito Esmay out for 24 days
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Vito Esmay, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I want to play”: Mateo Ferrari speaks
“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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Juan Pablo Iglesias, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
In brief
- The dugout Atlanta pick somebody else ahead of Mateo Ferrari
- The dugout Nicolás Previtali knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Patricio Ostachuk faces his old club