Marked for Leandro Larroza
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
Cristian Colombo damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
No sign of nerves from Leandro Larroza at 19 — 7.72
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Leandro Larroza did not need any: 7.72, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market19 Apr 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Ferro Carril Oeste, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ferro Carril Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lautaro Parisi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcelo Miño, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Match17 Apr 2027
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. San Miguel had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Gustavo Canto damages knee ligaments — 84 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 84 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Leandro Larroza: 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mateo Acosta 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Emiliano Ozuna 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Franco García
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gustavo Canto
91 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ferro Carril Oeste lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match17 Oct 2026
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ferro Carril Oeste has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Federico Tevez 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
Enzo Hoyos has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Ferro Carril Oeste can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Ferro Carril Oeste training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emiliano Ozuna 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Gimnasia y Tiro left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.