Capo

Goalkeeper - Mitre U18
12 Dec 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Capo

15 Edition

The Mitre Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Mitre

Rodrigo González 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 Mitre

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

Market

One of our own: Burrito joins the Mitre first team

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

The dugout

Daniel Abello 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.

The dugout

Mateo Montenegro has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Mitre 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.

The dugout

Brian Mieres 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
12 Edition

The Mitre Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Joaquín Ledesma: 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.” Mitre have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Oscar Garrido wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Rodrigo González 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 Mitre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Juan Alessandroni 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

A promise honoured at Mitre

Something was said to Santiago Rosales and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Favio Cabral 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Capo

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

Market

Joaquín Ledesma is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Mitre has been clear about where Joaquín Ledesma stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

The Marcos Machado story refuses to die

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

In brief

2 Edition

The Mitre Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Mitre

Rodrigo González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Mitre promote Capo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Capo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Juan Martín Vidal joins the Mitre first team

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

Market

Mitre promote Luis Ojeda from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Ojeda has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Gabriel Moretti joins the Mitre first team

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

Match

Mitre refuse to lose to Agropecuario Argentino

A point taken on 92 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Santiago Rosales

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

17 new faces, and Mitre are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Mateo Montenegro 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