Marked for Ignacio Irisarri
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Santiago Amaral and Parque del Plata agree another 4 years.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ignacio Irisarri 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Parque del Plata signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parque del Plata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Parque del Plata have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Yoel Burgueño has started doing his badges
“I watch sessions differently now. I catch myself thinking about why we are doing the drill.” At 38 that is how nearly every man in a dugout started.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Fabricio González 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Parque del Plata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Irisarri 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ignacio Irisarri 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Parque del Plata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Rodríguez 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager plants his flag on Cristian Silva
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Cristian Silva’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2026
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match12 Aug 2026
2‑2 against Cerro, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Cristian Silva pops up at the right end — 7.91
7.91, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Market17 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Joaquín Rodríguez is back at Parque del Plata, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parque del Plata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Ignacio Irisarri
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Parque del Plata were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián Cardozo, and the manager let it.