The Almagro Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
Joel Orlando damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Enzo Martínez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market8 Feb 2027
Matías Romano 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 Almagro can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Joel Orlando 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 Almagro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Almagro
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
Words at Almagro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonzalo Asis 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Ricardo Suárez joins the Almagro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ricardo Suárez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Pipa joins the Almagro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pipa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Juan Rossi steps up from the Almagro academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Rossi 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
- Squad Emiliano González dropped after a run of poor form
- Match Almagro and Colegiales cancel each other out
- Boardroom Almagro spend where nobody can see it