Fernando Acosta

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
14 Aug 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Fernando Acosta

130 Edition

The All Boys Gazette

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Tomás Sánchez out for 14 days

14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. All Boys lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A fracture rules Nicolás Carrizo out for 60 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason All Boys will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tiago Rivao 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at All Boys

Santiago Apa 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.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at All Boys

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

The dugout

No hiding place for Axel Ledesma

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Axel Ledesma, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Carlos Lucero knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at All Boys, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Nicolás Barrientos story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nicolás Barrientos signs something — a contract at All Boys or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

A door opens for Gustavo Turraca

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief