The Banfield Herald
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ignacio Abraham
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Banfield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Age has not caught Bruno Sepúlveda yet — 7.90
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Bruno Sepúlveda 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Banfield
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Favio Álvarez 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Tomás Adoryan runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market8 Feb 2027
Iván Suárez steps up from the Banfield academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Iván Suárez 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Gael Sosa steps up from the Banfield academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gael Sosa 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Bruno Rey steps up from the Banfield academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bruno Rey 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.
In brief
- Market Leonardo Ramírez steps up from the Banfield academy
- Match Banfield get the job done against Sarmiento
- Loan watch Cristian Jiménez Osuna has seen enough of Belgrano