Marked for Nahuel Cerulo
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. 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.
Match9 Sep 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 119th minute. Barracas Central will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.37, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nahuel Cerulo, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.63
A mark of 7.63 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jonatan Bogado 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Santiago Chávez has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Brown de Adrogué have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 23 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.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Acassuso, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match26 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 88th, and Acassuso spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lucas Irusta 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Liniers left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match29 Aug 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 5 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Juan Pablo Blanco to a room that had heard them before.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lautaro Urtasún was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Deportivo Armenio, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.75 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Brown de Adrogué, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Aug 2026
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nicolás Meaurio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Octavio Padovani. 2‑1 against Villa Dálmine, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.98 on the card, and the Brown de Adrogué support went home talking about one name.