The Excursionistas Chronicle
Squad7 Dec 2026
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 ratings7 Dec 2026
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 ratings7 Dec 2026
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 targets7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
Match5 Dec 2026
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 dugout7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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
- Market No place for Gonzalo Pedrosa in the plan
- The dugout Andrés Pereyra: “That is the standard”
- Market The shop window has Matías Blengio in it