Alfonso Álvarez

Goalkeeper - Ferro Carril Oeste
6 Nov 2026
Friday
Process

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11 Edition

The Ferro Carril Oeste Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Emanuel Dening damages knee ligaments — 92 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 92 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.

The dugout

Alfonso Álvarez: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ferro Carril Oeste have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Abdel Razack

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdel Razack will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ferro Carril Oeste the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Ferro Carril Oeste

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

Squad

Iván Vera is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Lautaro Parisi 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.

The dugout

Jonathan Menéndez 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.

The dugout

Lautaro Parisi 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.

Market

The Nicolás Retamar question follows Ferro Carril Oeste around

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

In brief