Marked for Gabriel González
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Pablo Ruiz 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Conrado Puigdellivol 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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 Jeremías Heidenreich is on it.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Acassuso next, and one man in the Comunicaciones dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
José Villalba 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 Comunicaciones, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market16 Nov 2026
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Comunicaciones could ask drops and the wages Conrado Puigdellivol can ask rise.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
Aldosivi go through and Comunicaciones go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market31 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Comunicaciones they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Maximiliano Brambillo has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Jaque and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Aug 2026
4 matches without defeat, and then Aldosivi. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Comunicaciones
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Francisco Mattia, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Flandria, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.83 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Pablo Ruiz, 39, rolls back the years — 7.88
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 39, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match22 Aug 2026
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Pablo Ruiz 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Germán Yacaruso, and the manager let it.