The San Martín Sentinel
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Nicolás Castro yet — 7.81
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at San Martín training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Pons 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
San Martín come up short against Madryn
Madryn left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Álvaro Veliez was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Rodríguez 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 San Martín this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Marcos López
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcos López, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Daniel Álvarez steps up from the San Martín academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Álvarez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Joaquín Acosta joins the San Martín first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Joaquín Acosta 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
Daniel Vidal steps up from the San Martín academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Vidal 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 San Martín promote Ricardo Flores from within
- Squad A mistake Darío Sand will not forget
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Darío Sand's mistake