Igor Leonardi

Goalkeeper - Burgos
15 Nov 2026
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Marked for Igor Leonardi

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The Burgos Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Unai Vencedor in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ander Cantero

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ander Cantero, and the manager let it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Burgos against Granada

0‑2 to Granada, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Curro was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

The dugout

Carlos Martínez: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Burgos pick somebody else ahead of Marcos Minetti

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Looking ahead

José Gragera faces his old club

Deportivo La Coruña next, and one man in the Burgos dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

Marcelo Expósito gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Marcelo Expósito is on it.

In brief

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The Burgos Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Burgos against Eibar

0‑2 to Eibar, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Gragera 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Marcos Minetti

“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.

Squad

16 new faces, and Burgos are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Carlos Martínez answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Igor Leonardi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Igor Leonardi and Burgos agree another 4 years.

The dugout

Fermín dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief