Marked for David González
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
7 new faces, and Terremoto are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ángel Martínez 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 Ángel Martínez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Squad24 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Néstor del Río
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Terremoto will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Terremoto are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Terremoto out
Out, 0‑4 to Sud America, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
David González arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. David González has, at Terremoto, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías Nicosia and Terremoto agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Progreso will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. David Santo has pre-agreed a move to Terremoto, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Market17 Aug 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Matías Nicosia in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Terremoto are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Alyair Mora has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Terremoto know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Terremoto dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.