Marked for Benjamín Borowik
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Steady
Squad15 Nov 2027
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market15 Nov 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Benjamín Borowik will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Racing Club the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Nov 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 Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Market18 Oct 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Racing Club they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad18 Oct 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 Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Santiago Sosa 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.
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Steady
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.65 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market20 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Benjamín Borowik will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Racing Club the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Sep 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 Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Santiago Sosa 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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Lucas Alario gets it from the manager
“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.
Loan watch20 Sep 2027
“I watch every Racing Club game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at MSK Zilina runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad20 Sep 2027
5 new faces, and Racing Club 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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Uneasy
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Lucas Alario: 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Racing Club they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 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 Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Valentín Carboni 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Racing Club training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Rodríguez 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 watch23 Aug 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 29 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad23 Aug 2027
5 new faces, and Racing Club 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.24 on the card, and the Racing Club support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Match17 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Racing Club
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match17 Jul 2027
18 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing Club may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market19 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad19 Jul 2027
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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Racing Club training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Sosa 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A season average of 7.38 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch19 Jul 2027
“I did not go to Houston Dynamo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Racing Club and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Jul 2027
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.
Loan watch5 Jul 2027
“I watch every Racing Club game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Austin FC runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Zaracho, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Racing Club sign 8 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gastón Martirena trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market5 Jul 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Racing Club will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Upbeat
Match9 Jun 2027
2‑1 does it. One match from everything the season was for — the largest morning a club can have without having actually won anything, and the one every supporter would take right now anyway.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match14 Jun 2027
29 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match9 Jun 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Racing Club did not have in the autumn.
Match9 Jun 2027
17 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match9 Jun 2027
Almagro ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Erik Florentín out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing Club may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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Triumph
Match2 Jun 2027
2‑0 settles it, and a club that spent a season earning the right to play these games has won one of them. Somebody else's season ended tonight, which is the part nobody mentions in the celebrations.
Match2 Jun 2027
10 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match2 Jun 2027
The run at home goes on for Racing Club
15 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Adrián Martínez, 34, rolls back the years — 8.42
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.42 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Racing Club heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Jun 2027
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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.