Marked for Lucas Cacciabue
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match6 Nov 2026
0‑0 against Santa Fe, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout9 Nov 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.93, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bruno Pittón commits to Unión de Santa Fe for another 3 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ignacio Malcorra 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Bruno Pittón gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Lucas Cacciabue, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Cristian Tarragona will call it something else in private.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mateo Raschia breaks a bone — 88 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ignacio Malcorra 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Gimnasia y Esgrima, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
50 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eric Ramírez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joaquín Mosqueira, and the manager let it.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Lucas Flores left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match18 Sep 2026
0‑1 against Palmeiras. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Match19 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Unión de Santa Fe are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 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 Unión de Santa Fe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Unión de Santa Fe training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eric Ramírez 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The team sheet said everything about Augusto Solari
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Augusto Solari.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ignacio Malcorra 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.