Nicolás Herrera

Right Midfielder - Estudiantes U18
3 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Nicolás Herrera

86 Edition

The Estudiantes Chronicle

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Facundo Vila

There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Facundo Vila hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Estudiantes can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Tomás Squie was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A falling-out at Estudiantes

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

Match

The drought breaks for Estudiantes

6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Central Norte were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Match

Tomás Blanco sends Estudiantes past Central Norte

It finished 2‑1, and it was Tomás Blanco’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Estudiantes.

The dugout

No hiding place for Delfor Minervino

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

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Tomás Blanco at his very best

Marked 8.58. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Estudiantes.

Match

Central Norte blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Central Norte tried to reorganise, Estudiantes did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

In brief

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The Estudiantes Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Estudiantes board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Estudiantes boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

The dugout

Santiago Monzón keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Estudiantes may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Estudiantes

Delfor Minervino 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.

Market

Rodrigo Melo 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 249% of everything Estudiantes 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Delfor Minervino

“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.

Squad

Jorge Correa 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.

Squad

Estudiantes count the cost of losing Nicolás Herrera

43 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief