The Los Andes Courier
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Los Andes
Brian Leizza 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Nothing got past Sergio Ortíz
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Facundo Echevarría
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Matías Gómez 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Brian Leizza takes the honours
Marked 7.61 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Los Andes had the best player on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Gabriel Cañete
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Cañete, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match Los Andes and Maipú cancel each other out
- Squad Juan Ruíz Díaz dropped after a run of poor form
- Market Diego Casella leaves for nothing