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The Argentino de Merlo Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nahuel Sica signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nahuel Sica commits to Argentino de Merlo for another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Argentino de Merlo

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

Squad

A row about effort at Argentino de Merlo

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

The dugout

Alejo Tello 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Facundo Cipresso at his very best

Marked 8.28. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Argentino de Merlo.

Market

Nobody at Argentino de Merlo has picked up the phone to Cristian Medina

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

Argentino de Merlo are still strangers to each other

10 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.

Match

Cristian Medina rescues a point for Argentino de Merlo

It needed Cristian Medina to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Liniers, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Bruno Herrera: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief