Rafa

Right Midfielder - Atlanta U18
26 Nov 2026
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Marked for Rafa

14 Edition

The Atlanta Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom2 Nov 2026

An order from above at Atlanta: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Atlanta

Leonel Galeano 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.

Boardroom2 Nov 2026

Wages eat 207% of everything Atlanta earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Carlos Ibáñez 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Christian Bernardi slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Christian Bernardi is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Market2 Nov 2026

Atlanta and Leonel Galeano are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Rodrigo Sosa 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 dugout2 Nov 2026

Martín García 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Atlanta take the armband off Nicolás Mosca

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Atlanta Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 Oct 2026

Sebastián Correa damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Atlanta

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

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Federico Bisanz 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Words at Atlanta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Rojas 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.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Juan Francisco Rago gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Juan Francisco Rago is on it.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Rafa 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 Rafa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

10 Edition

The Atlanta Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Atlanta

Leonel Galeano 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.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

282% of the income goes out in wages at Atlanta

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Leonel Galeano

“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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Patricio Ostachuk 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Nicolás Mosca named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Nicolás Mosca is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad5 Oct 2026

The armband comes off Leonel Galeano

Atlanta will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

In brief

2 Edition

The Atlanta Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Aug 2026

Leonel Galeano 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 Atlanta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market10 Aug 2026

Atlanta promote Rafa from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rafa 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Miguel Ángel Álvarez steps up from the Atlanta academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Miguel Ángel Álvarez 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Carlos Ibáñez joins the Atlanta first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Bruno Alonso joins the Atlanta first team

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

The dugout10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Martín García

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

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nicolás Mosca runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

The afternoon belonged to Alejandro Quintana

A mark of 7.60, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match8 Aug 2026

Atlanta share the spoils with Ferro Carril Oeste

A 1‑1 draw with Ferro Carril Oeste leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief