Roberto Ortiz

Right Midfielder - San Martín U18
23 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Roberto Ortiz

55 Edition

The San Martín Sentinel

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Darío Sand

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Martín lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Matías García asks to leave San Martín

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

Juan Orellana frozen out at San Martín

This is not rotation. Juan Orellana has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at San Martín is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words exchanged at San Martín

Lautaro Ovando 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.

Squad

Facundo Pons falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

San Martín count the cost of losing Roberto Ortiz

22 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Laureano Rodríguez takes the honours

Marked 7.53 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, San Martín had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Lautaro Ovando gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lautaro Ovando is on it.

The dugout

Sergio Herrera on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sergio Herrera after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

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51 Edition

The San Martín Sentinel

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Darío Sand out for 59 days

59 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Martín lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Diego Diellos 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 San Martín can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Juan Orellana frozen out at San Martín

This is not rotation. Juan Orellana has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at San Martín is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words exchanged at San Martín

Facundo Pons 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.

Squad

Roberto Ortiz out for 50 days

The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for Roberto Ortiz, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Jorge Juárez was the difference for San Martín

Marked 7.22. 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Nahuel Manganelli

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Diego Diellos

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. San Martín told Diego Diellos something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

Lautaro Ovando has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at San Martín will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief