The San Martín Sentinel
Squad2 Feb 2032
Words exchanged at San Martín
Alfredo Blancq-Cazaux 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.
Boardroom2 Feb 2032
Graduation day at San Martín
7 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.
Boardroom2 Feb 2032
The owner puts $147.7K into San Martín
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Squad2 Feb 2032
Words at San Martín training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonel Ramírez 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.
Market2 Feb 2032
One of our own: Agustín Blanco joins the San Martín first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Agustín Blanco is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market2 Feb 2032
Ricardo Ojeda steps up from the San Martín academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ricardo Ojeda 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.
Market2 Feb 2032
One of our own: Facundo Russo joins the San Martín first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Facundo Russo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market2 Feb 2032
San Martín promote Beto from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Beto 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.
Squad2 Feb 2032
9 new faces, and San Martín 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.
In brief
- The dugout Guillermo Rodríguez has become a man the manager trusts
- Boardroom San Martín turn down the training-ground plan
- The dugout Pichi gets it from the manager