Brayan Cortés

Goalkeeper - Argentinos Juniors
4 Aug 2026
Tuesday
Process

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The Argentinos Juniors Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Brayan Cortés keeps Argentinos Juniors in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Argentinos Juniors turn down Atlético Madrid for Diego Porcel

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Federico Mancuello signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Federico Mancuello and Argentinos Juniors agree another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Argentinos Juniors

Hernán López Muñoz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Joaquín Gho was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Federico Mancuello 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Argentinos Juniors against Independiente Rivadavia

0‑1 to Independiente Rivadavia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Iván Alonso answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Tomás Molina knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Argentinos Juniors, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief