Nacho

Attacking Midfielder (R) - San Telmo
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Nacho

7 Edition

The San Telmo Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

90 days out for Lucas Baldunciel after a fracture

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

Match

Nowhere to hide for San Telmo

1‑4 against Talleres, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market

Juan Cruz Zurbriggen puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at San Telmo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Javier Iritier beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Juan Cruz Zurbriggen in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Telmo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Martín Batallini 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Facundo Roncaglia

“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.

Market

Luis Colombo steps up from the San Telmo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Colombo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Nacho joins the San Telmo first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nacho is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief