The Defensores Post
Squad12 Oct 2026
The knee: Diego García out for 40 days
40 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Defensores lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market12 Oct 2026
Carlos Alberto Lombardi 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Defensores
Alejandro Medina 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Carlos Alberto Lombardi steps up from the Defensores academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlos Alberto Lombardi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Oct 2026
Defensores promote Lucas Rey from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lucas Rey has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Juan Monteagudo 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.
In brief
- The dugout Nicolás Morro gets it from the manager
- Squad Defensores are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Diego García asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager comes out for Nicolás Borsotti