Marked for Thiago Ramirez
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Thiago Ramirez and Villa Teresa agree another 3 years.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Nicolás Mouro has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Villa Teresa 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thiago Ramirez, and the manager let it.
Market28 Sep 2026
Villa Teresa have made Juan Olivera available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A few words of the language, a friend at the next peg, and a training ground that has stopped feeling foreign. Nothing measurable, and everything visible on Saturdays.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Alexis Coman 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 Villa Teresa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Villa Teresa know which stage they are at.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Villa Teresa are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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 Sebastián Gutiérrez is on it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Nicolás Mouro has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Nicolás Mouro keeps the shirt for now, at Villa Teresa's convenience rather than his own.
Market21 Sep 2026
Villa Teresa shop where it costs nothing
Alexis Coman signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Carlos Coates 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 Villa Teresa can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sebastian Pellistri 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thiago 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.