The Argentino de Merlo Gazette
Squad5 Feb 2029
Alejo Tello 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 Argentino de Merlo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Graduation day at Argentino de Merlo
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Leandro Moreira 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Argentino de Merlo promote Iván Correa from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Iván Correa 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Carlos Alberto Medina steps up from the Argentino de Merlo academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlos Alberto Medina 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
One of our own: Andrés Sánchez joins the Argentino de Merlo first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrés Sánchez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Feb 2029
Alejandro Rossi steps up from the Argentino de Merlo academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alejandro Rossi 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.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Argentino de Merlo board go back on their word
Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
No hiding place for Santiago Escalada
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Escalada, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Loan watch Franco Gindin has seen enough of Terremoto
- Player ratings Facundo Cipresso was unplayable
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Argentino de Merlo