Samir Meza

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Marked for Samir Meza

462 Edition

The Racing Club Courier

4 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match30 May 2035

The season ends here for Racing Club

Gimnasia La Plata go through. The table said this team was good enough for months and the format does not care what the table said, which is the argument every eliminated club has had with itself since playoffs were invented.

Squad4 Jun 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Matías Cantero

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

Squad4 Jun 2035

A fracture rules Alex Fernandes out for 41 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad4 Jun 2035

Benjamín Hernández Leal keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing Club may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market4 Jun 2035

Eyes on Matías Acevedo again

The phone has started ringing about Matías Acevedo again, and this time the name on the line is Banfield. Racing Club are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad4 Jun 2035

Samir Meza has been here 11 seasons

10 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market4 Jun 2035

Racing Club say no — this time

The offer from Palermo for Thiago Martínez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market4 Jun 2035

Eric González hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing Club can pretend not to have heard.

Market4 Jun 2035

Matías Acevedo raises the bar for Racing Club

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Racing Club heard it as anything else.

In brief

Back issues
432 Edition

The Racing Club Courier

6 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Match1 Nov 2034

Whatever happens, Racing Club do not lose

19 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match1 Nov 2034

The season ends here for Racing Club

Estudiantes go through. The table said this team was good enough for months and the format does not care what the table said, which is the argument every eliminated club has had with itself since playoffs were invented.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Eric González decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match1 Nov 2034

Racing Club make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Ignacio Rodríguez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ignacio Rodríguez commits to Racing Club for another 2 years.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Santiago Sosa 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 Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market6 Nov 2034

Axel Orrabalis is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Racing Club is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Words at Racing Club training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Rodríguez 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 ratings6 Nov 2034

Jonás Ravano was immovable

19 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief

421 Edition

The Racing Club Courier

21 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Aug 2034

Matías Tagliamonte keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing Club may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market21 Aug 2034

Only the photograph left for Matías Tagliamonte

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Matías Tagliamonte will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Racing Club the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Tempers go at Racing Club

Santiago Sosa 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.

Boardroom21 Aug 2034

Racing Club to lose Nicolás Monges for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Nicolás Monges has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Santiago Quiros 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.

Squad21 Aug 2034

The manager makes an example of Valente Pierani

“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.

Market21 Aug 2034

The Baltasar Rodríguez question follows Racing Club around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Baltasar Rodríguez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market21 Aug 2034

Samir Meza placed on the list

Racing Club have made Samir Meza available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market21 Aug 2034

Still no signature from Matías Tagliamonte

4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Racing Club could get for him.

In brief

419 Edition

The Racing Club Courier

7 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Aug 2034

10 seasons of Samir Meza

8 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Racing Club know what they have.

Squad7 Aug 2034

Gastón Martínez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing Club may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad7 Aug 2034

Tempers go at Racing Club

Santiago Sosa 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.

Market7 Aug 2034

Only the photograph left for Axel Orrabalis

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Axel Orrabalis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Racing Club the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match5 Aug 2034

6 unbeaten for Racing Club

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Racing Club did not have in the autumn.

Squad7 Aug 2034

Matías Zaracho gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings7 Aug 2034

One of those days for Matías Acevedo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.64, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match5 Aug 2034

Racing Club and Huracán take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings7 Aug 2034

The one thing Noa Kljajić could not do

Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief