Mago

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10 Dec 2028
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Process

Marked for Mago

80 Edition

The Quilmes Chronicle

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Ulises Vera runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Joaquín Postigo asks to leave Quilmes

“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.

Boardroom

Quilmes tie Juan Vega down

A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.

Match

No end in sight to Quilmes's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Quilmes has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Quilmes

Ramiro Luna 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Quilmes

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.

Squad

Luciano Recalde 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Quilmes

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

One of our own: Mago joins the Quilmes first team

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

In brief