The Colón Post
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Nahuel Curcio
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Feb 2027
Darío Sarmiento breaks Agropecuario Argentino hearts
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Darío Sarmiento scored in the 89th minute, Agropecuario Argentino had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Colón took the lot.
Market8 Feb 2027
Julián Marcioni asks to leave Colón
“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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The Colón board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Colón
Pier Barrios 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
2 academy players handed senior numbers at Colón
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
The crowd has taken to Darío Sarmiento
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Cuti joins the Colón first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cuti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Colón promote Daniel Campos from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Campos 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.
In brief
- Match Colón get the job done against Agropecuario Argentino
- Player ratings Darío Sarmiento was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Market Rukh join the queue for Nahuel Ciro