From our football correspondent
Steady
Match21 Apr 2027
San Martín SJ ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Apr 2027
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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
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 terraces26 Apr 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. David Sotelo 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was David Sotelo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Flandria.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Tomás Sives
“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.
Match24 Apr 2027
2 goals inside twenty minutes with David Sotelo in the middle of it, and Deportivo Merlo unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
David Sotelo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.21. 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.
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One of those days for Matías Donato
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Thyago Ayala asks for a word with the manager
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Upbeat
Squad19 Apr 2027
15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Flandria lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.87 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market19 Apr 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Flandria, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match17 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Flandria do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad19 Apr 2027
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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
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.
Match17 Apr 2027
A 2‑1 win over Argentino de Merlo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Facundo Ruiz
“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 ratings19 Apr 2027
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Flandria lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Santino Sansone: 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.” Flandria have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Apr 2027
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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Flandria do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Apr 2027
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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Matías Donato. 2‑0 against Deportivo Laferrere, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Carlos Morel
“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 ratings12 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes of Matías Donato at his very best
Marked 8.41. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Flandria.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tomás Sives has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Flandria will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Apr 2027
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Flandria lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad5 Apr 2027
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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thyago Ayala, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Matías Donato was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.62. 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Flandria is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Match3 Apr 2027
A goal on 90 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Match3 Apr 2027
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Flandria lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Máximo Chan: 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.” Flandria have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad29 Mar 2027
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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Flandria
Franco Costa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Giménez, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Martínez
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Flandria lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Up for the corner, and David Sotelo delivers — 7.70
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. David Sotelo scored, was marked 7.70, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Mar 2027
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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Matías Donato was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
A 2‑2 draw with Villa Dálmine leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
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.” Tomás Romano chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Martínez
54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Flandria lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.93 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Mar 2027
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.
Squad15 Mar 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 Flandria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Mar 2027
It needed Matías Donato to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against UAI Urquiza, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Mariatti, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Tomás Romano after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Federico Real dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Martínez
61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Flandria lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout8 Mar 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The Flandria board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Carlos Morel and Flandria agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
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 dugout8 Mar 2027
“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.
In brief
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Player ratings
Matías Donato takes the honours
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Thyago Ayala knocks on the manager's door
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tomás Martínez damages knee ligaments — 69 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 69 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Carlos Morel out for 15 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 dugout1 Mar 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Flandria's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Flandria has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad1 Mar 2027
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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
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 dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Di Biasi, and the manager let it.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.71 on the card, and the Flandria support went home talking about one name.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tomás Martínez damages knee ligaments — 76 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 76 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Carlos Morel breaks a bone — 23 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Flandria may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market22 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Flandria can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Match20 Feb 2027
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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Sportivo Italiano left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tomás Martínez damages knee ligaments — 85 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 85 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Carlos Morel breaks a bone — 30 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout15 Feb 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Matías López 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Flandria have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Ruiz, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
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.” Tomás Romano chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Martínez
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Flandria lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Carlos Morel breaks a bone — 38 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Facundo Ruiz: 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.” Flandria have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Flandria
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. José Navarro 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Julián Navarro 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pablo Romero 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Pedro Sosa joins the Flandria first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pedro Sosa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Martínez
100 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Flandria lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Carlos Morel breaks a bone — 46 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Flandria, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Martín López 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomás Sives, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
109 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Flandria lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad25 Jan 2027
53 days out for Carlos Morel after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Flandria will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Lucas Giménez 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages swallow 87% 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“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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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
119 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Flandria lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad18 Jan 2027
61 days out for Carlos Morel after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Flandria will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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 dugout18 Jan 2027
Tomás Sives 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
Diego Ramos 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Carlos Morel out for 68 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 dugout11 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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 dugout11 Jan 2027
Tomás Sives 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Franco Costa 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.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Carlos Morel breaks a bone — 75 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 75 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout4 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Flandria say no — this time
The offer from Ayacucho for Emanuel Murillo 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joan Esteche and Flandria agree another 4 years.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Giménez, and the manager let it.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Tomás Martínez 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Agustín Prokop signs something — a contract at Flandria or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Morel out for 82 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Bella Vista come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Flandria did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Facundo Brestt: 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.” Flandria have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Flandria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Sives 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 dugout28 Dec 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 113% of everything Flandria earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market28 Dec 2026
The name of Nazareno Diosquez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Flandria say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Carlos Morel breaks a bone — 90 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Flandria have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Flandria
Martín López 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Flandria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Sives 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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. San Telmo have kept their man, and Flandria go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Tomás Sives
“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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The name of Emanuel Murillo has come up in conversations Flandria were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Sarmiento: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Carlos Morel breaks a bone — 98 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 98 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Everything agreed with Gimnasia La Plata, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Alejandro González 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Agustín Prokop’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Flandria.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tomás Sives wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Flandria will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Tomás Romano on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
107 days out for Carlos Morel after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Flandria will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Everything agreed with Gimnasia y Esgrima, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías Mariatti and Flandria agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tomás Sives 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Flandria
Lucas Giménez 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 7.58. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
Carlos Morel breaks a bone — 116 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 116 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match30 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Flandria
Position 19 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match28 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Flandria cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Martín López 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Ferrocarril Midland, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom30 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Flandria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Brestt 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Matías López
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The dugout
Federico Real asks for a word with the manager
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Morel out for 125 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Flandria may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Flandria
4 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Franco Costa 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 dugout23 Nov 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Tomás Romano to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
133 days out for Carlos Morel after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Flandria will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
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 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.
Squad16 Nov 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Tomás Sives 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Tomás Martínez 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 Tomás Martínez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Agustín Prokop’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clock does Matías Mariatti’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Flandria could ask drops and the wages Matías Mariatti can ask rise.
The dugout16 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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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Morel out for 142 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
0‑4 to Fénix, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrés Ravecca and Flandria agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Flandria dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Flandria
Something was said to Martín Correa and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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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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Crisis
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.
From our football correspondent
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.
From our football correspondent
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.