Luca Raffaelli

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Instituto
22 Aug 2026
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Marked for Luca Raffaelli

3 Edition

The Instituto Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market17 Aug 2026

Iraklis join the queue for Jonás Acevedo

Add another name to the list: Iraklis have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jonás Acevedo. The answer from Instituto has not changed — yet.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Instituto

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

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Instituto supporters have found a favourite in Alex Luna

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Alex Luna 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Alex Luna in the eights

A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Instituto

Luca Raffaelli 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Instituto lose Liam Godoy

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match15 Aug 2026

Instituto and Gimnasia y Esgrima take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Diego Flores was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Instituto dressing room was either.

Looking ahead17 Aug 2026

Marcos Ledesma faces his old club

Defensa y Justicia next, and one man in the Instituto dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Instituto Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market3 Aug 2026

Instituto turn down Ismaily for Matías Tissera

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Franco Jara signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Franco Jara commits to Instituto for another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Instituto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Luna 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.

Match1 Aug 2026

Facundo Suárez’s goal not enough for Instituto

Facundo Suárez scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Independiente, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Marcos Ledesma 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Instituto

Luca Raffaelli 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Instituto has picked up the phone to Fernando Alarcón

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Instituto are still strangers to each other

16 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Diego Flores to a room that had heard them before.

In brief