Facundo Costa

Left Forward - Unión de Santa Fe U18
24 Apr 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Facundo Costa

134 Edition

The Unión de Santa Fe Courier

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Thiago Cardozo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thiago Cardozo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Unión de Santa Fe the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

José Vanetta hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Unión de Santa Fe can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Juan Pablo Ludueña has agreed to leave Unión de Santa Fe for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at Unión de Santa Fe

Thiago Cardozo 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.

The dugout

Santiago Grella frozen out at Unión de Santa Fe

This is not rotation. Santiago Grella has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Unión de Santa Fe is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom

Nicolás Baigorria will join Unión de Santa Fe for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Nicolás Baigorria has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Unión de Santa Fe have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jeremías Merlo

Unión de Santa Fe asked and River Plate said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

A bad afternoon for Unión de Santa Fe against Newell's Old Boys

0‑2 to Newell's Old Boys, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Unión de Santa Fe lose Facundo Costa

18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

Back issues
61 Edition

The Unión de Santa Fe Courier

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Junior Marabel: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Unión de Santa Fe have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

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 Mauro Pittón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

The goals have deserted Unión de Santa Fe

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Unión de Santa Fe can tell you which week it ends in.

Market

Pedro Vega steps up from the Unión de Santa Fe academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pedro Vega 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.

Market

One of our own: Enzo Miranda joins the Unión de Santa Fe first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Enzo Miranda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Gabriel Campos joins the Unión de Santa Fe first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriel Campos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Facundo Costa steps up from the Unión de Santa Fe academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Facundo 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Unión de Santa Fe against Newell's Old Boys

0‑1 to Newell's Old Boys, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

José Vanetta 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.

In brief