Marked for Ignacio Torres
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad15 Feb 2027
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Ignacio Irisarri 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Joaquín Gómez 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Bella Italia left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Reymond de Morales, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Franco Grigera
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Parque del Plata turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
Squad15 Feb 2027
At 14 years old, Ignacio Torres became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parque del Plata lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexis Zelarayán and Parque del Plata agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Joaquín Gómez 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
55 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parque del Plata lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Facundo Pareja 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Parque del Plata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Gómez 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 62 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Joaquín Gómez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Reymond de Morales 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ignacio Torres is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jorge Rios is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Ignacio Irisarri's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.