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Crisis
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Racing
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Racing are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Racing — 7.51
1 for Gabriel Aranda, marked 7.51, 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gonzalo Laborda and Racing agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Alejandro Rébola 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
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ricardo Centurión 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Tristán Suárez, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Laborda
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The phone has started ringing about Iván Calligaris again, and this time the name on the line is Puebla. Racing are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings7 Sep 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.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Racing
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Abel Bustos 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alejandro Rébola 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
Alvarado left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Racing have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcio 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.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Racing out
Out, 1‑2 to Central Córdoba SdE, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Tomás Kummer at 21 — 8.13
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Tomás Kummer did not need any: 8.13, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Racing's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Racing has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Abel Bustos 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 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Rébola 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
Racing supporters have found a favourite in Tomás Kummer
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Tomás Kummer 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Abel Bustos
“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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Racing deserved better, and so did he.
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Crisis
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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ricardo Centurión 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Gimnasia y Tiro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Tomás Kummer
Nobody at Racing is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Abel Bustos 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sergio González has left for Halmstad in a $310.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Brian Olivera goes
AVS paid $220.0K and Racing took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alejandro Rébola 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gonzalo Rostagno commits to Racing for another 3 years.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Racing have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
113 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
Racing may not be able to give Abel Bustos what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Abel Bustos wants continental football; whether Racing can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Pablo Chavarría and Racing agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Abel Bustos 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 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Rébola 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Racing, 2‑1 the final word against All Boys in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Ricardo Centurión’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.