The Unión de Santa Fe Courier
Squad26 Nov 2029
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.
Boardroom26 Nov 2029
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.
Squad26 Nov 2029
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.
Squad26 Nov 2029
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 dugout26 Nov 2029
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 dugout26 Nov 2029
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
- The dugout Diego Armando Díaz has been promised minutes
- Loan watch Franco Ratotti keeps scoring at Krylya Sovetov
- Squad “I want to play”: Thiago Lescano speaks
- The dugout The manager comes out for Mauro Pittón