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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Morel out for 150 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Flandria will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Flandria
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martín López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Franco Costa 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 Flandria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Oct 2026
Flandria caught on 94 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Sacachispas scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
107% of the income goes out in wages at Flandria
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrés Ravecca and Flandria agree another 2 years.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Flandria
Something was said to Martín López and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.74 on the card, and the Flandria support went home talking about one name.
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Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Morel out for 157 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Flandria will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Flandria may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Flandria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martín López 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Flandria
Facundo Coelli 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Joaquín Stizza's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
The drought breaks for Flandria
10 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Dock Sud were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.07 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Martín López 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 2‑1 win over Dock Sud, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
He is 22 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Franco Costa, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Matías López beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Flandria
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Brestt was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
20 new faces, and Flandria 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.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Flandria
Carlos Morel 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
Martín López 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomás Martínez, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Santiago Montoya commits to Flandria for another 2 years.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Federico Real 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 Flandria, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Matías Donato signs something — a contract at Flandria or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Flandria
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Flandria are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Rodrigo Bernal, 33, rolls back the years — 7.85
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.85 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Carlos Morel 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Flandria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martín López 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
At 33, 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Martín 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 127% of the Flandria 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
A point taken on 92 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Flandria's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Flandria has to find a result from somewhere.
Match26 Sep 2026
The goals have deserted Flandria
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Flandria can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad28 Sep 2026
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Carlos Morel 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 Flandria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Deportivo Armenio, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Flandria
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Brestt was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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 0‑1 Tomás Romano left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Flandria's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Flandria has to find a result from somewhere.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a goal for Flandria
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Flandria
Carlos Morel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Flandria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martín López 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Franco Costa
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
19 new faces, and Flandria 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.33 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Flandria had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Flandria's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Flandria has to find a result from somewhere.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Flandria
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match12 Sep 2026
Comunicaciones left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Carlos Morel 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Flandria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Costa 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 Flandria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 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 Tomás Romano to a room that had heard them before.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Acassuso in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Martín Correa 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 Martín Correa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Franco Costa 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 Flandria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Martín 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Federico Real slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Federico Real is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Facundo Brestt 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
A place in the month's best eleven for Juan Oresans
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Juan Oresans has come out of that comparison in the side, and Flandria have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market7 Sep 2026
At 39, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
The dugout7 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 Flandria, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Comunicaciones in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Flandria
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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Joaquín Zappacosta has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Flandria have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Flandria
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Franco Costa 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Flandria
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martín López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Tomás Romano after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Excursionistas came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Franco Costa
Nobody at Flandria is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Flandria
0‑1 against Comunicaciones, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Flandria's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Flandria has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Flandria
Carlos Morel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Franco Costa 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 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
18 new faces, and Flandria 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Tomás Romano was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Flandria dressing room was either.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Flandria
Carlos Morel 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Instituto will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Emanuel Sittaro has pre-agreed a move to Flandria, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 23 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Facundo Brestt 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Flandria a point
Minute 92, against Villa Dálmine, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Flandria know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Tomás Sives
A mark of 7.57, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Carlos Morel 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 Flandria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
500 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Banfield will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Lautaro Villegas has pre-agreed a move to Flandria, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. José Luis Ferrari 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Martín González 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matías Correa 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. Liam Ojeda 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Flandria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martín López 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Flandria know which stage they are at.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
499 appearances across 20 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Flandria know exactly what they have.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matías Donato commits to Flandria for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Carlos Morel 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Federico Real 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Level with 94 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Flandria had all but put away. Villa San Carlos will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.65, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match1 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.