Marked for Daniel Jimenez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match27 Sep 2027
Villa Teresa are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 29 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Nicolás Brun 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Erico Cuello 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.
Market27 Sep 2027
Facundo Martín is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Villa Teresa has been clear about where Facundo Martín stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Jimenez, and the manager let it.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager makes Lucas Bazán a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Villa Teresa. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
Juan Pedro Riva damages knee ligaments — 73 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 73 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Lucas Bazán breaks a bone — 129 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 129 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Nicolás Brun and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Juan Pedro Riva damages knee ligaments — 80 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 80 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Erico Cuello 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A move Damián Beisso would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Damián Beisso is living that version at Villa Teresa, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad18 Jan 2027
15 new faces, and Villa Teresa 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Juan Pedro Riva
87 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Villa Teresa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Franco Ramos arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Franco Ramos has, at Villa Teresa, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Erico Cuello 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Cabrera 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Jimenez 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Franco Ramos commits to Villa Teresa for another 3 years.