Marcos López

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27 Aug 2026
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Process

Marked for Marcos López

4 Edition

The San Martín Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Both of them Facundo Pons's — 8.53

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.53, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for San Martín — 7.50

1 for Kevin López, marked 7.50, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Market

San Martín may not be able to give Marcos López what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Marcos López wants continental football; whether San Martín can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Boardroom

San Martín to lose Leonardo Monroy for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Leonardo Monroy has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Facundo Pons 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 San Martín this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Marcos López beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

San Martín get the job done against Tristán Suárez

A 3‑1 win over Tristán Suárez, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Gonzalo Rodríguez 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nahuel Gallardo

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

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The San Martín Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

San Martín to lose Santiago Chávez for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Santiago Chávez has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Market

Only the photograph left for Santiago Chávez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santiago Chávez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Martín the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words at San Martín training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Pons is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Gonzalo Rodríguez 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 San Martín this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Kevin López

“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.

Market

One of our own: Luis Alberto Correa joins the San Martín first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Alberto Correa 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: José Luna joins the San Martín first team

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

Market

San Martín promote Martín Bianchi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Martín Bianchi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

San Martín come up short against Madryn

Madryn left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

1 Edition

The San Martín Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Darío Sand signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Darío Sand commits to San Martín for another 2 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at San Martín

Facundo Pons 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.

Market

Juan Orellana has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether San Martín can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Match

Luca Arfaras’s goal not enough for San Martín

Luca Arfaras scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Gimnasia y Tiro, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Words at San Martín training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darío Sand is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

One of those days for Marcos López

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market

Nobody at San Martín has picked up the phone to Facundo Pons

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

17 new faces, and San Martín are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Pablo Marino answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief