Marked for Augusto Kalayda
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Banfield's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Banfield has to find a result from somewhere.
Market19 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match17 Oct 2026
Banfield cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad19 Oct 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Gimnasia La Plata left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sergio Vittor 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Sergio Vittor's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
4.90. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Facundo Sanguinetti: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match2 Sep 2026
Banfield through in the cup
A 1‑1 win over Platense, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sergio Vittor 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mauro Méndez, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ignacio Pais misses from twelve yards
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Loan watch7 Sep 2026
6 appearances at San Lorenzo and the goals keep coming. Banfield are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market7 Sep 2026
Banfield have made Augusto Kalayda available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Aug 2026
Banfield through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Nueva Chicago, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match26 Aug 2026
Tiziano Perrotta wins it after the whistle should have gone
95 minutes played. Tiziano Perrotta found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Nueva Chicago went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Banfield and Belgrano in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Arouca have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Federico Anselmo. The answer from Banfield has not changed — yet.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Favio Álvarez 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 terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Augusto Kalayda has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Sergio Vittor
“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.