The Unión de Santa Fe Courier
Squad21 Sep 2026
The knee: Julián Palacios out for 115 days
115 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Unión de Santa Fe lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Brahian Cuello
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Brahian Cuello will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Unión de Santa Fe the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Ignacio Malcorra
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ignacio Malcorra 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 Unión de Santa Fe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Unión de Santa Fe find a way past Newell's Old Boys
Newell's Old Boys made Unión de Santa Fe work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Unión de Santa Fe training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eric Ramírez 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Eric Ramírez takes the honours
Marked 7.89 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Unión de Santa Fe had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Pablo Vázquez has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Pablo Vázquez on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Simón Bigot
“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.
In brief
- The dugout No place in the plan for Marcelo Estigarribia
- The dugout Tobías Rubio gets picked when it counts
- Squad Simón Bigot: “I am not a substitute”