The Racing Courier
Match8 Aug 2026
Racing tear All Boys apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against All Boys, and it could have been more.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Pablo Chavarría yet — 7.88
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market10 Aug 2026
Carlos Alberto García puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Racing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Pablo Chavarría and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ricardo Centurión was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Aug 2026
Racing promote Agustín Sánchez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Agustín Sánchez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Raúl Ortiz joins the Racing first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Raúl Ortiz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rulo steps up from the Racing academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rulo 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
One of those days for Matías Machado
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Squad Alfie James wants to go home
- The dugout No hiding place for Gonzalo Rostagno
- The dugout The manager’s verdict