Facundo Villarreal

Right Midfielder - Los Andes
28 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Facundo Villarreal

12 Edition

The Los Andes Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

11 matches without a win for Los Andes

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Los Andes are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Javier Bustillos damages knee ligaments — 52 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 52 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.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Los Andes

1‑4 against Racing, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

Los Andes are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Market

Facundo Villarreal puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Los Andes, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Los Andes

Brian Leizza 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.

Market

Mario Galeano wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words at Los Andes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Gómez 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Matías Gómez

“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.

In brief

  • Boardroom Nobody left the Los Andes dressing room in a hurry
  • Squad Los Andes are still strangers to each other
  • The dugout Andrés Sosa: “No excuses”