Gringo

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Unión de Santa Fe U20
1 Jan 2030
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Gringo

174 Edition

The Unión de Santa Fe Courier

26 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Gringo out for 15 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Unión de Santa Fe will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Unión de Santa Fe boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Mauro Pittón 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 Unión de Santa Fe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Unión de Santa Fe training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Pittón 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Enzo Roldán

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Santiago Grella gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Santiago Grella is on it.

In brief

Back issues
173 Edition

The Unión de Santa Fe Courier

19 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Unión de Santa Fe has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

Unión de Santa Fe sink to position 14

10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Gringo breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

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Market

Misael Aguirre puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Unión de Santa Fe, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Unión de Santa Fe

Mauro Pittón 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

A row about effort at Unión de Santa Fe

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Franco Fragapane was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Martín Reinoso

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

The dugout

Enzo Roldán knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Unión de Santa Fe, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief