Marked for Guillermo Cotugno
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Federico Bonilla 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián da Silva, and the manager let it.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Racing signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad8 Feb 2027
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Racing are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Franco Suárez gets picked when it counts
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 Franco Suárez is on it.
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Uneasy
The terraces1 Feb 2027
Anger at Racing spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Lucca Loprete: 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.” Racing have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market1 Feb 2027
Racing say no — this time
The offer from Notts County for Iván Manzur was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Federico Bonilla 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Álex Vázquez, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
7 new faces, and Racing 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Racing will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Market1 Feb 2027
Racing have let the market know Facundo Machado can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Axel Atum
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álex Vázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Facundo Machado commits to Racing for another 4 years.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Álex Vázquez knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Álex Vázquez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
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.
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Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Racing is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Bonilla 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sebastián da Silva has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Racing.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Felipe Álvarez
“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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Iván Manzur gets picked when it counts
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 Iván Manzur is on it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Facundo Parada knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Facundo Parada trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Manuel Ayala: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Racing will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Steady
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market11 Jan 2027
So close: Nicolás Sosa’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Cerro moved on, Nicolás Sosa reports back to Racing, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Agustín De la Cuesta and Racing agree another 5 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro Brazionis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market11 Jan 2027
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The formation has left José Tarán behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Racing will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Manuel Ayala gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Franco Suárez gets picked when it counts
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 Franco Suárez is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Racing people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
Supporters organise against the Racing board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Racing say no — this time
The offer from Atletico Venezuela for Iván Manzur was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The deal with Racing Club is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market4 Jan 2027
The paperwork is done: Agustín Acosta joins from Atenas in a deal worth $280.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álex Vázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
Racing say no — this time
The offer from Nacional for Sebastián da Silva was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
$280.0K settles it between the clubs for Agustín Acosta
Atenas have accepted the money. What Racing do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market28 Dec 2026
Nicolás Sosa 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 Racing can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market28 Dec 2026
Add another name to the list: Atletico Venezuela have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Iván Manzur. The answer from Racing has not changed — yet.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ramiro Brazionis 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ramiro Brazionis has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Racing.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Racing will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
Racing say no — this time
The offer from Defensor Sporting for Bautista Tomatis was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Santiago Amaral commits to Racing for another 4 years.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ramiro Brazionis, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Suárez 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market21 Dec 2026
Racing have let the market know Ramiro Brazionis can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Market14 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done: Agustín Rodríguez joins from Colon in a deal worth $250.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álex Vázquez 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Robinson Ferreira, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A loan move for Adolfo Gaich is in the works
Racing have made the call to Estudiantes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Santos have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Racing can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ramiro Brazionis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Racing will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álex Vázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Teliz, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Ramiro Brazionis asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Agustín Kahl has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Racing. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Juan Bosca gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Rodrigo Teliz 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
When it matters, Iván Manzur plays
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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Racing. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Franco Suárez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álex Vázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín De la Cuesta, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Racing know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ángel Cayetano and Racing agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Teliz 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
William Klingender watches a signing take the shirt he was promised
At 38 the pathway was supposed to be open. Instead Racing went to the market, and a local readership is asking the question the academy staff are too diplomatic to ask out loud.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Racing, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Franco Suárez commits to Racing for another 4 years.
Market28 Sep 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
19 new faces, and Racing 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Franco Suárez
“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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Agustín Kahl gets picked when it counts
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 Agustín Kahl is on it.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Racing, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Iván Manzur has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Racing out of the cup
Penarol ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Manuel Ayala, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.08
A mark of 8.08 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Carlos Valverde chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
A test against the best for Racing
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Juventud.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match15 Aug 2026
Racing march on in the cup
Boston River are out and Racing go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match12 Aug 2026
Racing march on in the cup
Boston River are out and Racing go through, 4‑3 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Iván Manzur, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 9.91
A mark of 9.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market17 Aug 2026
Racing say no — this time
The offer from Atalanta for Bautista Tomatis was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.71 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad17 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Ramiro Brazionis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Federico Varese and Racing agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Montevideo City Torque, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Carlos Barrios 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Facundo Sanchez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Juan Rivera joins the Racing first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Rivera is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Mendez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 6.54 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Guillermo Cotugno commits to Racing for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Axel Atum beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match1 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Defensor Sporting, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Federico Varese
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álex Vázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Esteban da Silva’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Racing are still strangers to each other
24 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Carlos Valverde after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.