The Quilmes Chronicle
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Gabriel Vázquez, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.56
A mark of 8.56 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market17 Aug 2026
Leonel Chavanne puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Quilmes, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match15 Aug 2026
Quilmes cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nothing got past Luciano Recalde
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nothing got past Martín Vallejos
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ramiro Luna 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 Quilmes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Marinelli 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Nothing got past Juan Yangali
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for José Barreto
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to José Barreto, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match Quilmes find a way past Colegiales
- Squad The manager has not finished forgetting Ariel Kippes's mistake
- Market The shop window has Joaquín Canadell in it