The San Martín de Burzaco Chronicle
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Francisco Fraga scores twice — 8.32
Two goals and a mark of 8.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match6 Feb 2027
San Martín de Burzaco make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now San Martín de Burzaco have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at San Martín de Burzaco
Elías Brizuela 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at San Martín de Burzaco
4 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at San Martín de Burzaco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Velázquez 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Francisco Fraga sends San Martín de Burzaco past Liniers
It finished 2‑1, and it was Francisco Fraga’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to San Martín de Burzaco.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
One of their own: Francisco Fraga
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market8 Feb 2027
Juan Manuel Costa steps up from the San Martín de Burzaco academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Manuel Costa 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
San Martín de Burzaco promote Matías Escobar from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matías Escobar 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.
In brief
- Market San Martín de Burzaco promote Matías Medina from within
- Market One of our own: Noah Alonso joins the San Martín de Burzaco first team
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Lucas Lezcano at his very best