The Sportivo Italiano Gazette
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Marcos Landaburu takes the afternoon — 9.17
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marcos Landaburu provided it, and the 9.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market14 Sep 2026
Juan Cruz de Cuadro 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 Sportivo Italiano can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Sportivo Italiano
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Market14 Sep 2026
Daniel Herrera steps up from the Sportivo Italiano academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Herrera 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
Facundo Blanco steps up from the Sportivo Italiano academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Facundo Blanco 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Two points walk out of the ground
Level with 85 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Sportivo Italiano had all but put away. Fénix will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Sportivo Italiano
Andrés Macea 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
15 new faces, and Sportivo Italiano 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Marcos Landaburu rescues a point for Sportivo Italiano
It needed Marcos Landaburu to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Fénix, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Squad Lucas Fantino falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Yordan