The Instituto Chronicle
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Agustín Massaccesi: 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.” Instituto have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
Instituto to lose Valentín Pucheta for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Valentín Pucheta has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Instituto
Bruno Mariani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
Nahuel Olmedo counts the days
“I watch every Instituto game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Deportes Temuco runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
Lautaro Maldonado’s loan is measured in nothing happening
10 clean sheets from 26 appearances at Sportivo Ameliano. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Iván Erquiaga 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 dugout9 Aug 2027
When it matters, Hernán de la Fuente plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Giuliano Cerato knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Giuliano Cerato trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Matías Gallardo 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
- Market Still no ink between Instituto and Álvaro Marín
- Market The Diego Sosa question follows Instituto around
- Market Iván Erquiaga placed on the list