Nicolás Rojas

Left Midfielder - Argentino de Merlo
19 Oct 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Nicolás Rojas

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The Argentino de Merlo Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Nicolás Rojas hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Argentino de Merlo can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Leonel Bucca goes up and wins it — 7.71

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.71 for the rest of it.

Squad

Federico Nicosia stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Federico Nicosia and Argentino de Merlo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Argentino de Merlo

Nicolás Franco 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.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Argentino de Merlo. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match

Leonel Bucca sends Argentino de Merlo past Villa Dálmine

It finished 1‑0, and it was Leonel Bucca’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Argentino de Merlo.

Squad

Nahuel Sica 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.

Squad

Facundo Cipresso makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Gabriel Suárez kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

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The Argentino de Merlo Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Words exchanged at Argentino de Merlo

Nicolás Franco 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Fernando Maldonado

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Argentino de Merlo against Dock Sud

0‑1 to Dock Sud, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Gabriel Suárez to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Luis Monge

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

Ezequiel Cohen knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Argentino de Merlo, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Looking ahead

Nahuel Sica faces his old club

Argentino de Quilmes next, and one man in the Argentino de Merlo dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad

Nicolás Franco has taken the shirt

At 30 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Argentino de Merlo are won quietly and lost loudly.

Market

The Tomás Jerez question follows Argentino de Merlo around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tomás Jerez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief