Marked for Daniel Gimenez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Mathias Jimenez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Juan Leguisamón arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Juan Leguisamón has, at Mar de Fondo, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Daniel Gimenez 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Lucas Amaral
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Mar de Fondo were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Facundo Sosa and Mar de Fondo agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Darío Arias 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 Darío Arias trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Roberto Giménez 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Matias Ugarte 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mathias Jimenez 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriel Santos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Matias Ugarte has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Mar de Fondo 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Mar de Fondo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roberto Giménez 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
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mathias Jimenez and Mar de Fondo agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriel Santos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.