The San Telmo Gazette | Open Football Simulator

3 Edition

17 Aug 2026

From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Juan Cruz Zurbriggen scores twice — 8.56

Two goals and a mark of 8.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market17 Aug 2026

Nea Salamis come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and San Telmo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Juan Cruz Zurbriggen 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 San Telmo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match15 Aug 2026

Almirante Brown take the points off San Telmo

Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match15 Aug 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about San Telmo and Almirante Brown in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Franco Aguirre runs at them all day

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 terraces17 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Iñaki Larthirigoyen

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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Nicolás Baigorria attracts admirers

The name of Nicolás Baigorria has come up in conversations San Telmo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at San Telmo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Motroni 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.

In brief

Player ratings Iñaki Larthirigoyen was on a different afternoon to everybody else
Squad A muscle injury sidelines Franco Aguirre for 16 days
The dugout Fabián Henríquez gets it from the manager

2 Edition

10 Aug 2026

From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

San Telmo turn down Carpi for Leonel Pollacchi

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Matías Salerno runs at them all day

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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Juan Yangali pops up at the right end — 7.65

7.65, 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at San Telmo

Juan Cruz Zurbriggen 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.

Match8 Aug 2026

Juan Yangali’s goal not enough for San Telmo

Juan Yangali scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Nueva Chicago, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Facundo Roncaglia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Roncaglia, and the manager let it.

Market10 Aug 2026

Maximiliano Lombardi steps up from the San Telmo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Maximiliano Lombardi 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

San Telmo promote Jorge Marino from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Marino 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: Bruno Pérez joins the San Telmo first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bruno Pérez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

Squad Joaquín Enrico falls out with a teammate over standards
The dugout Juan Escobar faces the questions
Squad Juan Yangali finally opens his account

1 Edition

3 Aug 2026

From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Both of them Juan Cruz Zurbriggen's — 9.10

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.10, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market3 Aug 2026

Lautaro López hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Telmo can pretend not to have heard.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Facundo Roncaglia signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Facundo Roncaglia commits to San Telmo for another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at San Telmo

Facundo Roncaglia 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.

Match1 Aug 2026

Juan Cruz Zurbriggen sends San Telmo past Chacarita Juniors

It finished 3‑2, and it was Juan Cruz Zurbriggen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to San Telmo.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Jerónimo Porto Lapegüe at his very best

Marked 8.90. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at San Telmo.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at San Telmo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jerónimo Porto Lapegüe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Juan Cruz Zurbriggen's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad3 Aug 2026

San Telmo are still strangers to each other

16 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.

In brief

Market Joaquín Enrico is free to find somewhere else
The dugout The view from the dugout
The dugout The manager makes an example of Joaquín Enrico