Marked for Tomás Almada
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Iván Fernández out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colegiales will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Gonzalo Baglivo: 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.” Colegiales have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market8 Mar 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 The request is on a desk at Colegiales, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Enzo Trinidad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match6 Mar 2027
Boca Juniors left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Colegiales
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Marín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market8 Mar 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Colegiales, another week without a signature from Facundo Rivero.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ricardo Ferrari after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
101 days out for Iván Fernández after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Colegiales will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market1 Feb 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 The request is on a desk at Colegiales, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Rivero, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Colegiales
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucio Castillo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mauro Albertengo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad1 Feb 2027
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Looking ahead1 Feb 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Newell's Old Boys in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market1 Feb 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Colegiales, another week without a signature from Gustavo Calderari.
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Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 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 Colegiales this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Colegiales, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
Enzo Trinidad 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Colegiales
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valentín Quevedo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Toloza
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Quilmes will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
San Martín next, and one man in the Colegiales dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Fernando Miranda
Nobody at Colegiales is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.