Marked for Facundo Sosa
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match25 Sep 2027
10 matches without a win for Platense
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Platense are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom27 Sep 2027
Pressure builds in the Platense boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Luciano 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.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Mariano Buzzini
“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.
Match25 Sep 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jose Morales after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Platense, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market5 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rodrigo Stipech and Platense agree another 2 years.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Luciano 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Platense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Folena was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Marked 7.30. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Martín Mazza dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
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Boardroom
Platense counting the cost
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Player ratings
Luciano Pérez beats them one at a time
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Platense
Juan José Contreras and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hugo Barreiro, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at Platense
8 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Platense
Something was said to Hugo Barreiro and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Facundo Sosa and Platense agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad16 Nov 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Platense are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.