Marked for Nicolás Borsotti
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Oct 2030
“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.
Squad7 Oct 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Enzo González and Defensores agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Oct 2030
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Defensores are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad7 Oct 2030
Satrio Azhar 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 Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Oct 2030
Defensores release $915.9K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Market7 Oct 2030
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Agustín Benítez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Market30 Sep 2030
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Defensores, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Sep 2030
Agustín Benítez 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.
Squad30 Sep 2030
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad30 Sep 2030
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Varela
“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.
Squad30 Sep 2030
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Defensores, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market30 Sep 2030
6 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Defensores money.
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Upbeat
Market23 Sep 2030
Enzo Figueroa 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 Defensores can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Sep 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Sep 2030
It finished 4‑3, and it was Matías Gómez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Defensores.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
A performance of 8.53 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
A performance of 8.46 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad23 Sep 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezequiel Aguirre, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Defences have started doubling up on Enzo González
4 goals and a season average of 7.37 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
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Crisis
Market16 Sep 2030
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Defensores, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Matías Gómez 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 Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Sep 2030
The manager makes an example of Enzo Villalba
“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.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Enzo González is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.36 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Matías Gómez asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market16 Sep 2030
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Joaquín Tonet signs something — a contract at Defensores or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings16 Sep 2030
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings16 Sep 2030
A mark of 5.59 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Aug 2030
A one-man rearguard from Satrio Azhar
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market5 Aug 2030
Simón Herrera 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 Defensores can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Aug 2030
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Ezequiel Aguirre, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Satrio Azhar 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.
Player ratings5 Aug 2030
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Aug 2030
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Cores
“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.
Boardroom5 Aug 2030
$915.9K on the table at Defensores
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Match3 Aug 2030
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market5 Aug 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Defensores know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Market1 Jul 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Defensores can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Jun 2030
Still nobody has beaten Defensores
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad1 Jul 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Jul 2030
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad1 Jul 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Borsotti, and the manager let it.
Player ratings1 Jul 2030
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Defences have started doubling up on Joaquín Tonet
3 goals and a season average of 7.20 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings1 Jul 2030
Shots: 8. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Match29 Jun 2030
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Talleres defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Upbeat
Market3 Jun 2030
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Defensores, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match1 Jun 2030
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Defensores have 3 straight wins of it.
Market3 Jun 2030
The name of Facundo Centurión has come up in conversations Defensores were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Matías Gómez 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.
Player ratings3 Jun 2030
Marked 9.14 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings3 Jun 2030
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Jun 2030
“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 ratings3 Jun 2030
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Crisis
Market13 May 2030
“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.
Squad13 May 2030
108 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad13 May 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolás Borsotti and Defensores agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad13 May 2030
Bautista González 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.
Squad13 May 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dilan Acosta, and the manager let it.
Match11 May 2030
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings13 May 2030
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings13 May 2030
Shots: 14. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings13 May 2030
A mark of 5.35 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Crisis
Market6 May 2030
“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.
Squad6 May 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match4 May 2030
0‑1 to San Telmo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings6 May 2030
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad6 May 2030
“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 ratings6 May 2030
The one thing Matías Gómez could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad6 May 2030
Santiago Izzo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The terraces6 May 2030
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad6 May 2030
Iván Massi is not saying it is over
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 37 with 31 appearances behind him, and Defensores have to plan for both answers.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market15 Apr 2030
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Defensores, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Apr 2030
The medical room confirms 136 days on the sidelines for Ezequiel Aguirre, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Apr 2030
Agustín Benítez 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.
Player ratings15 Apr 2030
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match13 Apr 2030
0‑2 to Morón, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad15 Apr 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iván Massi, and the manager let it.
Squad15 Apr 2030
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Player ratings15 Apr 2030
A mark of 5.46 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings15 Apr 2030
5.59 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Steady
Market18 Mar 2030
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Defensores, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad18 Mar 2030
Agustín Benítez 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.
Player ratings18 Mar 2030
Marked 8.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings18 Mar 2030
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match16 Mar 2030
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad18 Mar 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Belizán, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Mar 2030
Enzo González wants a proper job in this side
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Enzo González has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Defensores know, and have known for weeks.
Squad18 Mar 2030
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolás Borsotti trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market18 Mar 2030
The clock does Iván Massi’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Defensores could ask drops and the wages Iván Massi can ask rise.
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Upbeat
Market4 Mar 2030
Lorenzo Cores 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 Defensores can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Mar 2030
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Facundo Centurión will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Defensores the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad4 Mar 2030
Agustín Benítez 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.
Match2 Mar 2030
It finished 3‑1, and it was Joaquín Tonet’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Defensores.
Player ratings4 Mar 2030
Marked 8.98 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings4 Mar 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.86, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings4 Mar 2030
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings4 Mar 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad4 Mar 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Borsotti, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Market25 Feb 2030
Dilan Acosta 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 Defensores can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Feb 2030
Only the photograph left for Iván Massi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Iván Massi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Defensores the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad25 Feb 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Feb 2030
It finished 2‑1, and it was Franco Caro’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Defensores.
Player ratings25 Feb 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.85, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings25 Feb 2030
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Diego García 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.
Market25 Feb 2030
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Joaquín Tonet’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad25 Feb 2030
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Market4 Feb 2030
“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.
Market4 Feb 2030
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market4 Feb 2030
The shirt still fits. Valentín De Luca is back at Defensores, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market4 Feb 2030
The shirt still fits. Benjamín Escobar is back at Defensores, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Matías Gómez 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.
Match2 Feb 2030
A 3‑1 win over Gimnasia y Esgrima, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings4 Feb 2030
A performance of 9.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad4 Feb 2030
The manager makes an example of Enzo Villalba
“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 ratings4 Feb 2030
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Market10 Sep 2029
“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.
Match8 Sep 2029
No end in sight to Defensores's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Defensores has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match8 Sep 2029
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Bautista González 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.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
A performance of 8.68 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad10 Sep 2029
The manager makes an example of Dilan Acosta
“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.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Every debut is a small story about the future: Enzo Figueroa, 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Crisis
Market27 Aug 2029
Lorenzo Cores 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 Defensores can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Catriel Monochio 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.
Match25 Aug 2029
Central Norte left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad27 Aug 2029
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Cores
“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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Enzo Villalba will call it something else in private.
Squad27 Aug 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Raúl Romano and Defensores agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Marked 5.44, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Uneasy
Market16 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market16 Jul 2029
The offer from Gimnasia y Tiro for Juan Carlos Ortiz 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.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Nicolás Vidal 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.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Jul 2029
The manager makes an example of Juan Monteagudo
“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.
Match14 Jul 2029
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Temperley came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
A mark of 5.55 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Steady
Squad7 May 2029
A one-man rearguard from Lautaro Daus
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 May 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Defensores, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 May 2029
Ian Pérez 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 Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 May 2029
Marked 8.76 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad7 May 2029
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Defensores have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Loan watch7 May 2029
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Defensores, and 0 appearances in 0 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad7 May 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Borsotti, and the manager let it.
Match5 May 2029
A 1‑1 draw with San Telmo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings7 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Upbeat
Market30 Apr 2029
“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.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market30 Apr 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Defensores have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad30 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match28 Apr 2029
Central Norte made Defensores work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
A defender's afternoon for Nicolás Vidal
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“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.