Marked for Ignacio Chocho
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
117 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Platense lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Nov 2026
49 days out for Martín Mazza after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Platense
Joel Valdemarín 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.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 131 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market9 Nov 2026
As if he never left: Germán Cardozo returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Germán Cardozo is a Platense player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad9 Nov 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ignacio Chocho gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ignacio Chocho has just signed for Platense, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Juan Pablo Miño 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Camilo Rios is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.