Marked for Mateo Rodríguez
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad18 Oct 2027
Federico Alonso and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Franco Mederos 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 dugout18 Oct 2027
Franco Mederos asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Aug 2027
Emiliano García damages knee ligaments — 57 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 57 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
This is not rotation. Keiner Pérez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Huracan del Paso is pretending otherwise.
Market16 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Mateo Aramburú
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mateo Aramburú will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Huracan del Paso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Aug 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 Huracan del Paso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Huracan del Paso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Alonso 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 dugout16 Aug 2027
Julián Pedrosa has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Huracan del Paso will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market28 Jun 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 The request is on a desk at Huracan del Paso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Federico Alonso and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market28 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Huracan del Paso have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Huracan del Paso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Silvera 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Emiliano García for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Huracan del Paso will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Market28 Jun 2027
A stepping stone, not a home, for Mateo Rodríguez
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Huracan del Paso were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Racing have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.