Facundo Pereyra

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Retired
4 Jul 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Facundo Pereyra

19 Edition

The Excursionistas Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A fracture rules Nicolás Rodríguez out for 53 days

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

Player ratings

Facundo Pereyra scores twice — 8.61

Two goals and a mark of 8.61 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Israel Coll goes up and wins it — 7.77

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.77 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Juan Giménez

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Excursionistas have done the hard part with Rosario Central, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Matías Blengio signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matías Blengio commits to Excursionistas for another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Excursionistas

Mariano Arango and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Excursionistas get the job done against Dock Sud

A 3‑2 win over Dock Sud, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Lucas Villarruel

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

Squad

A row about effort at Excursionistas

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

In brief

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The Excursionistas Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

95 days out for Nicolás Rodríguez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Excursionistas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Blas Rolón

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

Alan Espeche leads the rout of Comunicaciones

3‑0, and Alan Espeche took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Excursionistas tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Both of them Alan Espeche's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Ignacio Maizarez 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 Excursionistas can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

An order from above at Excursionistas: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Squad

Tempers go at Excursionistas

Mariano Arango 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

The manager makes an example of Facundo Pereyra

“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.

Squad

Alejandro Altuna 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.

In brief