From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
87 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Madryn lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Madryn
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriel Gudiño was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 176% of the Madryn 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Deportivo Cali are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Madryn will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Nicolás Servetto 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Thiago Yossen
“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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Madryn have made Lucas Pruzzo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Matías Montero damages knee ligaments — 94 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 94 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Madryn say no — this time
The offer from Melgar for Nicolás Servetto 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.
Market21 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Lucas Diarte 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 Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Yair Bonnín 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Madryn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Pruzzo 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 Dec 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 Madryn, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Madryn has been clear about where Adriano Martínez stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market21 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Madryn know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matías Montero
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Madryn lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Dec 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Thiago Yossen had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market14 Dec 2026
Lucas Pruzzo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Madryn they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Madryn
Lucas Diarte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Lucas Pruzzo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Yair Bonnín 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Renzo Sastre has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Madryn.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Madryn
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eduardo Simo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Dec 2026
Madryn have made Nazareno Solís available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout7 Dec 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.
Market7 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Madryn
Lucas Diarte and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Claudio Corvalán 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Add another name to the list: Aragua have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Thiago Yossen. The answer from Madryn has not changed — yet.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eduardo Costa, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Market7 Dec 2026
Nicolás Ortiz is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Madryn has been clear about where Nicolás Ortiz stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Market30 Nov 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 dugout30 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Madryn
Lucas Diarte 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Madryn
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudio Corvalán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 194% of everything Madryn 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roberto Varela, and the manager let it.
Market30 Nov 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Diego Martínez has his answer from Madryn; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Leonardo Marinucci trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Madryn
Something was said to Enzo Arancibia and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Steady
Market23 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Madryn can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Camilo Machado: 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.” Madryn have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Lucas Diarte 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 Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Madryn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Claudio Corvalán 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nazareno Solís, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 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 Madryn, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market16 Nov 2026
“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 Madryn, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Víctor Cabrera out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Madryn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Madryn may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market16 Nov 2026
Lucas Pruzzo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Madryn they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Madryn
Lucas Diarte 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 Madryn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Claudio Corvalán 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
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Luis Silba 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Madryn have let the market know Nicolás Servetto can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Víctor Cabrera out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Madryn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Madryn
Claudio Corvalán and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Leonardo Marinucci 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Joaquín Ibáñez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Enzo Fernández is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolás Servetto trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Braian Cabral has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Madryn will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market9 Nov 2026
The Yvo Calleros talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Madryn know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Nov 2026
Juan Iglesias hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Madryn can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Madryn
Lucas Diarte 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Madryn
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudio Corvalán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 194% of the Madryn 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Yair Bonnín
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Nicolás Servetto. Madryn will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Nicolás Servetto 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Juan Peinipil has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Madryn will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
35 days out for Víctor Cabrera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Madryn will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Madryn may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market26 Oct 2026
“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 Madryn, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Lucas Diarte 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 Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Madryn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Claudio Corvalán 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Yair Bonnín 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 Madryn, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Oct 2026
The Julián Cosi talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Madryn know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clock does Lucas Pruzzo’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Madryn could ask drops and the wages Lucas Pruzzo can ask rise.
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Steady
Market19 Oct 2026
“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 Madryn, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Víctor Cabrera out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Madryn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Madryn is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Lucas Pruzzo has agreed terms with Newell's Old Boys for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Madryn
Lucas Diarte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Claudio Corvalán 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 dugout19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nazareno Solís 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 Madryn, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Madryn have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
50 days out for Víctor Cabrera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Madryn will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Madryn
Lucas Diarte 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
Claudio Corvalán 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Facundo Luna has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Russo 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Madryn
17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market12 Oct 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Franco Grigera has his answer from Madryn; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Braian Cabral has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Madryn will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Víctor Cabrera out for 57 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Madryn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Madryn
Lucas Diarte 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
A row about effort at Madryn
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudio Corvalán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 261% of the Madryn 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
Luis Silba 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
No place for Lucas Pruzzo in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lucas Pruzzo has his answer from Madryn; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Leonardo Marinucci trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Juan Peinipil has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Madryn will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
64 days out for Víctor Cabrera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Madryn will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Madryn can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lucas Diarte 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 Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Claudio Corvalán 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Tomás Rey faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tomás Rey after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Agustín Sosa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. 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
71 days out for Víctor Cabrera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Madryn will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Madryn
Claudio Corvalán 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Camilo Machado’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Madryn.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lucas Pruzzo 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Tomás Rey on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Diego Martínez, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ricky 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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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Víctor Cabrera out for 78 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Madryn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Madryn can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.84, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Luis Silba, 36, rolls back the years — 8.58
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.58 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Madryn
Lucas Diarte 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Claudio Corvalán 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Nicolás Servetto’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Madryn.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yair Bonnín, and the manager let it.
Match12 Sep 2026
At last: Madryn win one
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Almagro. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Roberto Varela damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Víctor Cabrera out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Madryn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Madryn
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Madryn are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Madryn
Lucas Diarte 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Claudio Corvalán 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 Sep 2026
A point taken on 87 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nazareno Solís
“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 ratings7 Sep 2026
7.62, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Madryn had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Madryn lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Víctor Cabrera out for 92 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Madryn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Madryn can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Madryn
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Madryn are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lucas Diarte 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 Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Claudio Corvalán 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Madryn are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Tomás Rey left the room before anybody could ask which.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Roberto Varela damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Madryn
Lucas Diarte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Madryn
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudio Corvalán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match22 Aug 2026
Racing left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Claudio Corvalán, and the manager let it.
Match22 Aug 2026
No time for Racing to settle
The goal that put Racing ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Madryn equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Roberto Varela
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Madryn lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Madryn
1‑2 against Agropecuario Argentino, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Braian Cabral, 19, steals the show — 7.61
Marked 7.61 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Madryn
Lucas Diarte and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Madryn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Claudio Corvalán 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Madryn come up short against Maipú
Maipú left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonardo Marinucci, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Aug 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 1‑2 Tomás Rey left the room before anybody could ask which.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.89, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Madryn
Claudio Corvalán was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Iglesias has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Pipo joins the Madryn first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pipo 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
One of our own: Liam Gómez joins the Madryn first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liam Gómez 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. Felipe 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luis Silba. 1‑0 against Güemes, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lucas Pruzzo 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.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
Burgos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Madryn did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
7.95, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Market3 Aug 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Claudio Corvalán and Madryn agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Madryn
Lucas Diarte 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
A row about effort at Madryn
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudio Corvalán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Madryn, 1‑0 the final word against San Martín in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Lucas Diarte
Still no offer on the table, and Lucas Diarte’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
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Squad
17 new faces, and Madryn are still learning each other
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Market
No place for Matías Llanquetrú in the plan