Marked for Leandro Milito
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad5 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Santiago Quiros
54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Racing Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Leandro Milito: 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.” Racing Club have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Apr 2027
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Alfonso Espino and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Apr 2027
A 2‑1 win over Independiente Rivadavia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Racing Club training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gastón Lodico 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.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Racing Club, and 5 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Racing Club told Matías Zaracho something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Steady
Squad29 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Santiago Quiros
61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Racing Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad29 Mar 2027
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Nico López 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Marco Di Cesare 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.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Racing Club, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adrián Martínez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
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 Ignacio Rodríguez is on it.
Market29 Mar 2027
The name of Lucas Ocampos keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Racing Club say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Independiente Rivadavia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
63 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Racing Club lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market28 Dec 2026
The offer from Atletico Nacional for Duván Vergara was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Leandro Mamut had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market28 Dec 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Deportivo Riestra did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $1.0M for Mariano Bracamonte, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Racing Club asked and Ferrocarril Midland said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad28 Dec 2026
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mariano Bracamonte is living that version at Racing Club, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Alfonso Espino 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.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
$300.0K was the most the club would pay and Godoy Cruz were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marcos Acuña breaks a bone — 40 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marcos Acuña 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Leandro Milito is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Adrián Martínez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Racing Club.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomás Conechny was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Pérez, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.69, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Sebastián Romero, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Marcos Acuña 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 Racing Club, and both men came out saying it was fine.