From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Pablo Chavarría 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alejandro Rébola was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valentino Núñez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pablo Ramírez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Racing against Alvarado
0‑1 to Alvarado, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings14 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
Alejandro Rébola is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Racing
Pablo Chavarría 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 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Facundo Taborda commits to Racing for another 4 years.
Squad7 Sep 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 dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Tomás Kummer
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Tomás Kummer has come out of that comparison in the side, and Racing have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Sebastián Marfort has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
Leonel Monti 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, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Racing. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
Match29 Aug 2026
Racing win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Madryn will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Pablo Chavarría and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Alfie James has left for Newcastle Jets in a $41.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match29 Aug 2026
At last: Racing win one
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Madryn. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Valsangiácomo, and the manager let it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sergio González. 1‑0 against Madryn, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
27 new faces, and Racing are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Racing out
Out, 1‑1 to Banfield, 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
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Racing's wait for a win
5 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
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alejandro Rébola was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Sebastián Marfort was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match19 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Racing a point
Minute 120, against Banfield, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergio González, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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
Tempers go at Racing
Pablo Chavarría 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.
Squad17 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Racing against Arsenal
0‑1 to Arsenal, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Alfie James has come up in conversations Racing were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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 0‑1 Andrés Marino left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Raúl Chamorro’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Racing needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Uneasy
Match8 Aug 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Racing
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. All Boys kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Racing will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.97 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Pablo Chavarría and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ricardo Centurión was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lucas Suárez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Leonardo Benítez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Enzo Quiroga has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Tucumano joins the Racing first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tucumano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Sebastián Marfort takes the afternoon — 8.93
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sebastián Marfort provided it, and the 8.93 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
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
Words exchanged at Racing
Pablo Chavarría 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.
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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 23 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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Brian Olivera
“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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 Aug 2026
Racing rescue it on 95 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Almagro had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
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.
In brief
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Racing
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Match
Racing and Almagro take a point apiece
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict