The Almagro Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Matías Laba out for 62 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Almagro will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Emiliano González stands alone
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Almagro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gino Barbieri 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Picante joins the Almagro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Picante is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Mago steps up from the Almagro academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mago 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Enzo Martínez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.28. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match12 Sep 2026
Almagro refuse to lose to Arsenal
A point taken on 88 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Match12 Sep 2026
Almagro and Arsenal take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Almagro pick somebody else ahead of Juan Pablo Zozaya
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- The dugout Matías Cortave gets it from the manager
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Squad Enzo Martínez is off the mark for Almagro