Diego Cabeda

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Marked for Diego Cabeda

207 Edition

The Argentino de Merlo Gazette

15 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad15 Jul 2030

35 days out for Gabriel Cañete after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Argentino de Merlo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad15 Jul 2030

A falling-out at Argentino de Merlo

Diego Ursino and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match13 Jul 2030

Argentino de Merlo come up short against Sacachispas

Sacachispas left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market15 Jul 2030

Villa San Carlos watching Rodrigo Espalter

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Argentino de Merlo have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout15 Jul 2030

Máximo Rodríguez 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.

Boardroom15 Jul 2030

Wages swallow 108% of the Argentino de Merlo income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad15 Jul 2030

A muscle injury sidelines Luis Quiroga for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Argentino de Merlo will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout15 Jul 2030

Juan Martín García: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad15 Jul 2030

Diego Cabeda 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.

In brief

Back issues
192 Edition

The Argentino de Merlo Gazette

1 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Apr 2030

12 seasons of Diego Ursino

353 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Argentino de Merlo know what they have.

Market1 Apr 2030

Only the photograph left for Rodrigo Espalter

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rodrigo Espalter will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Argentino de Merlo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad1 Apr 2030

Words exchanged at Argentino de Merlo

Diego Ursino 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.

Squad1 Apr 2030

Diego Aravena is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad1 Apr 2030

A row about effort at Argentino de Merlo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Cabeda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout1 Apr 2030

No hiding place for Leonardo Ortegal

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonardo Ortegal, and the manager let it.

The dugout1 Apr 2030

Luciano González has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Argentino de Merlo 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.

Market1 Apr 2030

The Cristian Medina talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Argentino de Merlo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout1 Apr 2030

Máximo Rodríguez has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Máximo Rodríguez has written the date down.

In brief

158 Edition

The Argentino de Merlo Gazette

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 Aug 2029

128 days out for Santiago Villarreal after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Argentino de Merlo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings6 Aug 2029

Both of them Cristian Medina's — 8.24

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.24, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Diego Ursino has been here 11 seasons

330 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Match4 Aug 2029

At last: Argentino de Merlo win one

7 matches without a win, and then this, against Deportivo Laferrere. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad6 Aug 2029

A falling-out at Argentino de Merlo

Alejo Tello and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad6 Aug 2029

A move Diego Cabeda 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. Diego Cabeda is living that version at Argentino de Merlo, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match4 Aug 2029

Argentino de Merlo get the job done against Deportivo Laferrere

A 3‑1 win over Deportivo Laferrere, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces6 Aug 2029

Argentino de Merlo supporters have found a favourite in Cristo Lozada Echenique

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Cristo Lozada Echenique 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.

Boardroom6 Aug 2029

Wages swallow 132% of the Argentino de Merlo income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

In brief