Gabriel Reta

Central Defender - Atlético Tucumán
4 Apr 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Reta

27 Edition

The Atlético Tucumán Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

107 days out for Leandro Díaz after a fracture

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

The dugout

Gabriel Compagnucci: 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.” Atlético Tucumán have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Atlético Tucumán

Leandro Díaz 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Kevin Ortiz

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Alexis Canelo 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.

Squad

No place for Gabriel Reta in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Atlético Tucumán are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Looking ahead

Kevin Ortiz goes back to face Rosario Central

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Kevin Ortiz’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Atlético Tucumán needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market

Still no ink between Atlético Tucumán and Ezequiel Godoy

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Atlético Tucumán, another week without a signature from Ezequiel Godoy.

The dugout

Lautaro Godoy asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
26 Edition

The Atlético Tucumán Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

115 days out for Leandro Díaz after a fracture

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

The terraces

Atlético Tucumán sell a favourite for $5.2M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Luis Ingolotti was one of the reasons people came, and $5.2M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Atlético Tucumán sell Luis Ingolotti for $5.2M

Luis Ingolotti has left for Guadalajara in a $5.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Sanfrecce Hiroshima come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Atlético Tucumán did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Atlético Tucumán

Leandro Díaz 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Atlético Tucumán

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

Squad

Rodrigo Granillo pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

The dugout

Kevin Ortiz 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 Kevin Ortiz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Juan 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.

In brief