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Crisis
Match26 Aug 2026
Agropecuario Argentino ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ramiro Vitale 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Alavés for Thiago De Bellis 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.
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 Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcos Rojo, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lautaro Díaz 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 Racing Club, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over All Boys, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Ramiro Vitale out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Santiago Sosa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Racing Club training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Conechny 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Baltasar Rodríguez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.61 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Gonzalo Sosa has come up in conversations Racing Club were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 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.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Ramiro Vitale out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market17 Aug 2026
The Lazio deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Facundo Cambeses reports back to Racing Club with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Valentín Carboni at 21 — 8.78
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Valentín Carboni did not need any: 8.78, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 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 Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matko Miljevic 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 terraces17 Aug 2026
At 21 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Belgrano made Racing Club work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad17 Aug 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.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Ramiro Vitale out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matías Zaracho and Racing Club agree another 4 years.
Squad10 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 Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrián Martínez, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Huracán will be the happier side with the point.
Market10 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Galo Volpe
Still no offer on the table, and Galo Volpe’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 9 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
Adrián Martínez wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Racing Club hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alfonso Espino commits to Racing Club for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alfonso Espino 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
Words at Racing Club training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Conechny 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Racing Club, another week without a signature from Alfonso Espino.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.77 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Racing Club had the best player on the pitch.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Nazareno Colombo's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Match1 Aug 2026
It needed Duván Vergara to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against River Plate, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.