The Racing Club Courier
Squad8 Feb 2027
The knee: Marcos Rojo out for 76 days
76 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Racing Club lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market8 Feb 2027
Matías Tagliamonte agrees terms with Alcorcón
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Racing Club people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match6 Feb 2027
Nobody wants to play Racing Club right now
6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
No sign of nerves from Valentín Carboni at 21 — 7.82
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Valentín Carboni did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Matías Tagliamonte: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Racing Club have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market8 Feb 2027
Pyunik come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Racing Club did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Racing Club
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
A falling-out at Racing Club
Marco Di Cesare and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
The crowd has taken to Valentín Carboni
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market Racing Club promote Benicio Russo from within
- Market Colo steps up from the Racing Club academy
- Match Racing Club see off Barracas Central