The Plaza Colonia Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Mathías Cubero due for a Plaza Colonia medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Plaza Colonia
Lucas Carrizo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Manuel Rodriguez joins the Plaza Colonia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Manuel Rodriguez 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
Kevin Gimenez steps up from the Plaza Colonia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kevin Gimenez 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: Mathias Sanchez joins the Plaza Colonia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mathias Sanchez 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
Plaza Colonia promote Gaston Ramirez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gaston Ramirez 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
10 new faces, and Plaza Colonia are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Haibrany Ruiz Díaz was the difference for Plaza Colonia
Marked 7.41. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Carlos Hernandez: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Matías Velázquez
- Match Point won or two lost for Plaza Colonia?
- Looking ahead Haibrany Ruiz Díaz goes back to face Boston River