Marked for Rodrigo Rodriguez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Rodriguez
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mar de Fondo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mar de Fondo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Mar de Fondo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Russo 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.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mar de Fondo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Mar de Fondo know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Santiago Varela and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mar de Fondo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
61 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Mar de Fondo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Varela 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Rodriguez
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mar de Fondo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mar de Fondo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kevin Barrios is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.