Facundo González

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19 Dec 2027
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Process

Marked for Facundo González

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The Nacional Sentinel

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Emiliano del Pino breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Emiliano de Oliveira has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nacional they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Nacional

Juan Cruz de los Santos 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Nacional

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Boggio was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Juan Pablo Patiño has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Nacional can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

The dugout

When it matters, Juan Cruz de los Santos plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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The Racing Sentinel

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Facundo Parada

29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Racing lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Esteban da Silva was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Words exchanged at Racing

Guillermo Cotugno 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.

Squad

Racing lose Facundo González

31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Bautista Tomatis sends Racing past Montevideo City Torque

It finished 1‑0, and it was Bautista Tomatis’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Racing.

Player ratings

One of those days for Bautista Tomatis

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Facundo Parada

“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.

The dugout

A satisfied Gabriel Fernandez

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Gabriel Fernandez could afford to be generous.

The dugout

Iván Manzur gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Iván Manzur is on it.

In brief