Tomás Arce

Right Forward - San Lorenzo U20
18 Apr 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Tomás Arce

504 Edition

The San Lorenzo Chronicle

24 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Tomás Arce damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.

Match

No mercy from San Lorenzo

Defensa y Justicia will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. San Lorenzo were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

Diego Barros takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

The dugout

Agustín Hausch keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” San Lorenzo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Only the photograph left for Alexis González

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexis González will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Lorenzo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tomás O'Connor 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 San Lorenzo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

San Lorenzo cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Marcos Peano 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. Marcos Peano has, at San Lorenzo, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Player ratings

Diego Barros was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.51. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

Back issues
503 Edition

The San Lorenzo Chronicle

17 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tomás Arce damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.

Match

No mercy from San Lorenzo

Comunicaciones will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. San Lorenzo were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

A brace, and Camilo Rey Domenech takes the afternoon — 8.23

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Camilo Rey Domenech provided it, and the 8.23 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Elías Cabrera, 33, rolls back the years — 8.04

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Only the photograph left for Martín Campos

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martín Campos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Lorenzo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at San Lorenzo

Tomás O'Connor 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.

Squad

Franco Orozco 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at San Lorenzo

14 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alexis González

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexis González, and the manager let it.

In brief