The Quilmes Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ariel Kippes
86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Quilmes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match6 Feb 2027
9 matches without a win for Quilmes
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Quilmes are no longer polite ones.
Market8 Feb 2027
Axel Batista 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 Quilmes can pretend not to have heard.
Match6 Feb 2027
7 matches without a goal for Quilmes
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad8 Feb 2027
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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near José Barreto
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Agustín Bolívar 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Hernán González joins the Quilmes first team
- Market Noah Miranda steps up from the Quilmes academy
- Market Kun steps up from the Quilmes academy