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Steady
Match6 Feb 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Platense did not have in the autumn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Platense
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Platense
2 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Carlos Miranda 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gustavo López 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Maximiliano Amarfil 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Platense sign off a bigger ground
A capacity of 7669 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.
The dugout8 Feb 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
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 The request is on a desk at Platense, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Platense
Nicolás Sumavil 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 Feb 2027
Maximiliano Amarfil 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Platense has been clear about where Bautista Merlini stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Nico López has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Platense will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Tomás Silva 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 Silva trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead1 Feb 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Talleres in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Platense. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ivo Visona has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Platense that is a harder question to answer.
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Upbeat
Match25 Jan 2027
Platense refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 23 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Zahir Ibarra gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Zahir Ibarra has just signed for Platense, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Nicolás Sumavil 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Platense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Milo 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iván Gómez, and the manager let it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Zahir Ibarra is 20, and Platense have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Platense are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Tomás Silva gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tomás Silva is on it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Tomás Silva 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 Silva trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Maximiliano Amarfil 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
The manager makes an example of Augusto Lotti
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivo Visona commits to Platense for another 5 years.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Ignacio Vázquez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Platense will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Platense, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
Juan Saborido breaks a bone — 17 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market11 Jan 2027
Platense say no — this time
The offer from Belgrano for Augusto Lotti 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Platense
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Platense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximiliano Amarfil was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Eugenio Raggio commits to Platense for another 4 years.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Platense, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market11 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ignacio Vázquez signs something — a contract at Platense or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Platense. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
26 days out for Juan Saborido after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Platense say no — this time
The offer from AEK for Nicolás Sumavil 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.
Market4 Jan 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 Platense, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Platense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Belgrano have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Augusto Lotti. The answer from Platense has not changed — yet.
Market4 Jan 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Demián Troya reports back to Platense with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Platense
Bruno Sepúlveda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout4 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Platense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Milo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Juan Saborido out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Platense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market28 Dec 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 Platense, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match28 Dec 2026
Platense up to position 3
23 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Nico 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Platense have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Platense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximiliano Amarfil was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Celías Ingenthron and Platense agree another 5 years.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Iván Gómez
“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 Dec 2026
Tomás Silva has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Platense 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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Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
42 days out for Juan Saborido after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Platense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Platense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maximiliano Amarfil 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
“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 dugout21 Dec 2026
Gastón Togni has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Platense will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Luciano Giménez has written the date down.
Market21 Dec 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Iván Gómez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
51 days out for Juan Saborido after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match11 Dec 2026
Platense do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Platense came through the finding-out well against Universidad de Chile.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.89, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Platense
Nicolás Sumavil and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match11 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Platense
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Tomás Silva 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Juan Manuel Fernández was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Platense dressing room was either.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
Juan Saborido breaks a bone — 60 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Tomás Silva: 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.” Platense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Platense
Nicolás Sumavil 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
Words at Platense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maximiliano Amarfil 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gonzalo Goñi commits to Platense for another 3 years.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Nico López gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nico López is on it.
Market7 Dec 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Augusto Lotti may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market7 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ignacio Vázquez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout7 Dec 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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Upbeat
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Juan Saborido out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Platense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match27 Nov 2026
1‑0 against Santos, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Franco Zapiola was at the centre of the description.
Match30 Nov 2026
Platense refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 23 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Santiago Quiros: 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.” Platense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Nicolás Sumavil 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 Platense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Gómez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Nico López beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Augusto Lotti
“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.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
77 days out for Juan Saborido after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout23 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Platense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Iván Gómez 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
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Juan Saborido out for 84 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Platense 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
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Platense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Platense
Bruno Sepúlveda 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 dugout16 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Platense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Gómez 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
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Juan Saborido breaks a bone — 91 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match6 Nov 2026
A European night to remember for Platense
0‑0 against Montevideo City Torque, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tomás Silva commits to Platense for another 5 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Platense
Nico 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Iván Gómez 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maximiliano Amarfil, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Ignacio Vázquez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Platense will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Juan Saborido 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.
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Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
Juan Saborido breaks a bone — 99 days out
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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda: 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.” Platense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match2 Nov 2026
Platense refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 23 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Nicolás Sumavil 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 Platense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Gómez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Augusto Lotti
“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
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Manuel Tucker and Platense agree another 4 years.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Platense
Something was said to Guido Mainero and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
When it matters, Nico López plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Triumph
Squad26 Oct 2026
107 days out for Juan Saborido after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match23 Oct 2026
A European night to remember for Platense
2‑0 against Montevideo City Torque, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.01, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Platense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Platense right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad26 Oct 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 21 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.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Juan Saborido breaks a bone — 114 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 114 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Platense
Nicolás Sumavil and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Nico López
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Iván Gómez 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Iván Gómez 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Platense
18 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
123 days out for Juan Saborido after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑3 to Estudiantes, 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Platense
Nicolás Sumavil 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 dugout12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Platense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Gómez 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Franco Minerva commits to Platense for another 4 years.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout12 Oct 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 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Juan Manuel Fernández to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Ignacio Vázquez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Platense 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
Match2 Oct 2026
Platense do the business in Europe
2‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Platense came through the finding-out well against Universidad de Chile.
Squad5 Oct 2026
50 days out for Gonzalo Goñi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.89, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match5 Oct 2026
Platense up to position 3
17 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Nico López yet — 8.17
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.17 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad5 Oct 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Gastón Togni scored one and made one — 7.84
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.84, and 2 involvements.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Tomás Nasif
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gonzalo Goñi breaks a bone — 58 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Sep 2026
Gonzalo Goñi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Platense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Platense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Gómez 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 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Augusto Lotti, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Julián Ramos, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Juan Saborido 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 Juan Saborido trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Juan Manuel Fernández was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Platense dressing room was either.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Gonzalo Goñi breaks a bone — 66 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 66 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match18 Sep 2026
Platense come up short in Europe
0‑2 away to the standard of Santos. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Platense
Nico López and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Vázquez, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luciano Giménez. 1‑0 against Vélez, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Platense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Gómez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Leonardo Heredia will call it something else in private.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.47. 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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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Gonzalo Goñi out for 73 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Platense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Platense
Nicolás Sumavil 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Instituto left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Platense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Gómez 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guido Mainero, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Gastón Togni 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
17 new faces, and Platense 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout14 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 Platense, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brian Bustos is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Brian Bustos: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match2 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Platense
2‑2 against Instituto, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad7 Sep 2026
81 days out for Gonzalo Goñi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Nico López takes the afternoon — 9.11
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nico López provided it, and the 9.11 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Franco Minerva at 20 — 7.74
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Franco Minerva did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nicolás Sumavil 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Lanús will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Allam Wlk has pre-agreed a move to Platense, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nico López. 2‑0 against Defensa y Justicia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
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Match
Platense keep winning on the road
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Squad
Iván Gómez falls out with a teammate over standards
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The dugout
Iván Gómez gets it from the manager
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
Platense through in the cup
A 3‑2 win over Atlético Tucumán, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Gonzalo Goñi out for 88 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Platense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Tomás Nasif takes the afternoon — 8.83
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Tomás Nasif provided it, and the 8.83 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market31 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Goñi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Platense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad31 Aug 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Platense and Gimnasia y Esgrima in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Juan Gauto
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Triumph
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. 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
Tomás Nasif takes the match ball home
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Tomás Nasif obliged against Estudiantes. 4‑3 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Platense.
Squad24 Aug 2026
96 days out for Gonzalo Goñi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Platense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Aug 2026
2 behind and going nowhere, until Tomás Nasif decided otherwise. Estudiantes had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.
Match19 Aug 2026
Nobody wants to play Platense right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Platense
Nicolás Sumavil 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
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.80, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom24 Aug 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.
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Triumph
Match15 Aug 2026
Independiente will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Platense were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
7.93, 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Platense cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Platense
Bruno Sepúlveda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv pay $240.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Santiago Quiros 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Platense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Gómez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
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Triumph
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Platense people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.26 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ignacio Vázquez commits to Platense for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
The dugout10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrés Lombardi 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.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
Villarreal come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Platense did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Platense — 7.97
1 for Tomás Silva, marked 7.97, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market3 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Gonzalo Goñi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gonzalo Goñi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Platense the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nico López and Platense agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ignacio Vázquez 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.
The terraces3 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
San Lorenzo made Platense work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match1 Aug 2026
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. San Lorenzo tried to reorganise, Platense did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.