Marked for Máximo Seggio
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastián Prieto
55 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Argentinos Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Aug 2027
70 days out for Luciano Gómez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Argentinos Juniors will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market2 Aug 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 The request is on a desk at Argentinos Juniors, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Argentinos Juniors — 7.90
1 for Claudio Bravo, marked 7.90, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market2 Aug 2027
The deal that would have taken Kevin Coronel to Boca Juniors has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Argentinos Juniors with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market2 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Joaquín Gho 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Nicolás Oroz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Argentinos Juniors lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer from Changchun Yatai for Máximo Seggio 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joaquín Gho, and the manager let it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Facundo Jainikoski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martín Reinoso and Argentinos Juniors agree another 4 years.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Argentinos Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Ambrogio 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.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Argentinos Juniors lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Alan Lescano 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Argentinos Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hernán López Muñoz 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Máximo Seggio has come up in conversations Argentinos Juniors were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Giménez Rojas, and the manager let it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Joaquín Gho knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Joaquín Gho trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market11 Jan 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market11 Jan 2027
The clock runs on Luciano Gómez's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Fernando Meza damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Argentinos Juniors have had the benefit of it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A move Nicolás Villagra would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nicolás Villagra is living that version at Argentinos Juniors, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market4 Jan 2027
The chase for Nicolás Villagra ended with $290.0K changing hands and All Boys out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Alan Lescano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Alan Lescano 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 Argentinos Juniors, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Leonel Mosevich may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Squad24 Aug 2026
Miguel Acosta decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Thiago Berterame, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.01
A mark of 8.01 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Argentinos Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hernán López Muñoz 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Vicenza have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gastón Verón. The answer from Argentinos Juniors has not changed — yet.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Gino Infantino has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Barracas Central, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.