Marked for Benjamín Quiroga
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
Matías Mansilla was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Cristian Gorgerino 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Alvarado, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Atlanta next, and one man in the Alvarado dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market29 Mar 2027
The name of Germán Cervera keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Alvarado say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match8 Aug 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Alvarado
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Quilmes kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Alvarado will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Matías Mansilla pops up at the right end — 7.15
7.15, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Alvarado
Matías Mansilla and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emanuel Bilbao, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamín Quiroga 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Pablo Aguirre 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Liam Domínguez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Julián Silva 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.