Marked for Daniel Bianchi
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market28 Jan 2036
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Jan 2036
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alejandro Silva and All Boys agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout28 Jan 2036
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad21 Jan 2036
Everybody at All Boys saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad21 Jan 2036
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matías Méndez commits to All Boys for another 3 years.
The dugout21 Jan 2036
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 Ahmed Al-Rashidi is on it.
The dugout21 Jan 2036
The manager makes an example of Daniel Bianchi
“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.
Market21 Jan 2036
The name of Alejo Tabares keeps appearing in other people's back pages. All Boys say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad21 Jan 2036
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and All Boys will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
In brief
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The dugout
Jorge Méndez asks for a word with the manager
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Boardroom
The All Boys academy earns its keep
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Boardroom
The All Boys board choose calm
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Triumph
Match9 Jun 2035
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 18 matches without defeat is a foundation All Boys did not have in the autumn.
Squad11 Jun 2035
The knee: Mateo Méndez out for 30 days
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. All Boys lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match11 Jun 2035
Full time on the season at All Boys
Position 2 on 39 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Player ratings11 Jun 2035
Two goals and a mark of 8.63 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market11 Jun 2035
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout11 Jun 2035
Daniel Bianchi: 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.” All Boys have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets11 Jun 2035
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Talleres keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Jun 2035
A season average of 7.21 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match9 Jun 2035
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Miqueas Pintos. 2‑1 against Maipú, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
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The terraces
One of their own: Felipe Peralta
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Match
Another one collected away from home
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The dugout
The view from the dugout