Nicolás Royón 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 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.
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.
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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Johnson Ayaane trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Individual work, away from the group, aimed at one specific thing the coaches think is holding him back. It rarely makes the news and it is how most improvement actually happens.
Ángel Llanes 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.
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.
Words at Rampla Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel Llanes 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.
Fodé Doumbouya 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rampla Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rampla Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Rampla Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel Llanes 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.
Nicolás Royón 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 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.
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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rampla Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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 message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Franco Delgado plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
7Edition
The Rampla Juniors Herald
14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondentUneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ángel Llanes 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.
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.
“I have started watching training differently.” At 36 he has begun the badges, which is how most of the men in the dugout began.
In brief
SquadFranco Delgado is training like a man with a point to make
6Edition
The Rampla Juniors Herald
7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondentUneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Rampla Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel Llanes 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.
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Joaquín Muñoz
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Joaquín Muñoz has come out of that comparison in the side, and Rampla Juniors have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Matías Canedo 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.
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.
Words at Rampla Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel Llanes 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.
Augusto Scarone 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rampla Juniors, and both men came out saying it was fine.
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Alberto Eiraldi: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Juventud go through and Rampla Juniors go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Franco Delgado did not need any: 8.12, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Lautaro Rinaldi was one of the reasons people came, and $96.0K does not replace that by itself.
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Rampla Juniors will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Nicolás Royón 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.
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.
Nicolás Royón 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.
Still no offer on the table, and Sebastián Cal’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.43 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
The name of Lautaro Rinaldi has come up in conversations Rampla Juniors were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rampla Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lautaro Rinaldi has his answer from Rampla Juniors; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Rampla Juniors will not keep him by pretending otherwise.