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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
89 days out for Matías Martínez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Fénix will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Germán Pezzella and Fénix agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Fénix
Camilo Heredia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Fénix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Germán Pezzella 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Valentín Parra
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
At 35, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
Flandria next, and one man in the Fénix dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fénix, another week without a signature from Lucas Rancic.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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 Ciro Florentín is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
97 days out for Matías Martínez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Fénix will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Fénix
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Fénix
Marcos Jara 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Fénix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Velazco 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Fénix are still strangers to each other
23 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Diego Zumbo 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Carlos Alberto Correa after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Market26 Oct 2026
Fénix bring in an old head
Nicolás Ramírez is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Matías Martínez out for 104 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fénix will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match17 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Fénix
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Fénix
Marcos Jara 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Fénix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Velazco 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Match17 Oct 2026
Fénix are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match17 Oct 2026
Argentino de Merlo left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Gonzalo Medina gets it from the manager
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The dugout
Manuel Masdeu dropped after a run of poor form
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Matías Martínez out for 112 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fénix will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fénix can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marcos Jara 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 Fénix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Fernando Escobar has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Fénix 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Julián Vivas 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 Fénix, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clock does Lucas Rancic’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Fénix could ask drops and the wages Lucas Rancic can ask rise.
Squad12 Oct 2026
This league is too small for Marcos Giménez
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Fénix will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
120 days out for Matías Martínez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Fénix will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Fénix
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Up for the corner, and Nicolás Velazco delivers — 7.33
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Nicolás Velazco scored, was marked 7.33, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Fénix
Marcos Jara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Fénix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Velazco 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 101% of the Fénix income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Fernando Escobar gets it from the manager
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Market
Fénix bring in an old head
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Matías Martínez out for 127 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fénix will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Fénix
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Fénix
Marcos Jara 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Fénix
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Velazco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcos Jara
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Fénix
20 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Carlos Alberto Correa left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Fénix, and it is a cruel one.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 134 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A brace, and Matías Martínez takes the afternoon — 8.76
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Matías Martínez provided it, and the 8.76 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Fénix
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Fénix are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Fénix — 7.75
1 for Nicolás Velazco, marked 7.75, 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Fénix
Marcos Jara 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Level with 93 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Fénix had all but put away. San Martín de Burzaco will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Diego Celis 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Fénix
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fénix are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Fénix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Velazco 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.
Squad14 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 Fénix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Carlos Alberto Correa left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Sebastián Ibars
“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 dugout14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
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 Santiago Erviti is on it.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Fénix
Facundo Gómez 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nicolás Velazco 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ciro Florentín is the division's best young player this month
At 18 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Fénix will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Ciro Florentín
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ciro Florentín has come out of that comparison in the side, and Fénix have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Valentín Parra
“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 dugout7 Sep 2026
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 Fernando Escobar is on it.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Matías Martínez’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Fénix needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market7 Sep 2026
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Fénix could get for him.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Fénix
1‑2 against Central Córdoba SdE, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Ciro Florentín at 18 — 7.83
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ciro Florentín did not need any: 7.83, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Fénix
Marcos Jara 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 terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Ciro Florentín has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Camilo Heredia was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
20 new faces, and Fénix 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout31 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 Alberto Correa chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Fénix
A 4‑3 win over Barracas Central, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Fénix
0‑3 against Argentino de Quilmes, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match19 Aug 2026
At 2 goals adrift this was a formality, and the formality lasted right up until it did not. Fénix found something the first half had given no notice of, and Barracas Central could not hold what they had.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Ciro Florentín at 18 — 8.18
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ciro Florentín did not need any: 8.18, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Fénix
Marcos Jara 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Fénix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Velazco 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
At 22 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.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Sebastián Montero scored in the 85th minute, Dock Sud had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Fénix took the lot.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Sebastián Montero takes the afternoon — 8.45
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sebastián Montero provided it, and the 8.45 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marcos Jara 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 Fénix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nicolás Velazco 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Román Rodríguez has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Fénix have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match15 Aug 2026
Dock Sud made Fénix work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcos Jara, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fernando Escobar and Fénix agree another 3 years.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Crisis
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Fénix
Marcos Jara 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Facundo Romeo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Fénix have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Real Pilar, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joaquín Luna 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juan Carlos De Luca 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. Emiliano Pereyra 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Pablo Lombardi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Carlos Alberto Correa to a room that had heard them before.
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Ciro Florentín takes the afternoon — 8.61
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ciro Florentín provided it, and the 8.61 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcos Jara commits to Fénix for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Fénix
Marcos Jara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nicolás Velazco 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Marcos Jara
Still no offer on the table, and Marcos Jara’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
20 new faces, and Fénix 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Market
Fénix bring in an old head
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Looking ahead
A reunion for Camilo Heredia