Joaquín Blanco

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Wanderers
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Joaquín Blanco

53 Edition

The Wanderers Herald

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The small margins put Wanderers out

Out, 0‑1 to Danubio, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Joaquín Blanco

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Esteban Crucci keeps the receipts

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

Squad

A falling-out at Wanderers

Jonathan Urretaviscaya and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Wanderers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Alberti 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.

Match

The goals have deserted Wanderers

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Wanderers can tell you which week it ends in.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of José Alberti

“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.

Transfer targets

Federico Ruiz stays at Progreso as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Wanderers will try again when the window opens; Progreso may not be selling by then.

Match

A bad afternoon for Wanderers against Nacional

0‑1 to Nacional, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

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43 Edition

The Wanderers Herald

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Joaquín Blanco sends Wanderers through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Joaquín Blanco obliged against Plaza Colonia. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Wanderers.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Martín Bertola

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

Match

Joaquín Blanco wins it after the whistle should have gone

90 minutes played. Joaquín Blanco found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Plaza Colonia went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad

Tempers go at Wanderers

Jonathan Urretaviscaya 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 ratings

Nicolás Queiroz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. 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

A row about effort at Wanderers

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

Match

Wanderers find a way past Deportivo Maldonado

Deportivo Maldonado made Wanderers work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

One of their own: Jonás Luna

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Alan García was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.29. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief