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Facundo Ledesma Ibarra

No. 156 · Monday 9 November 2026 · Buenos Aires

Lunes de potrero

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A free Monday letter on Argentine football. Its readers are fans, coaches, club staff and the people who organise the events I host.

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  • Radio Pampa DeportivaThe commentator who still calls it from the cheap seats2026
  • Balón AustralWhy Argentina’s best football writing arrives on a Monday2026
  • Canal Estadio SurLate-night panel: what the mud taught the table2025
  • La Previa SemanalTwenty years on the microphone: a conversation about listening2025

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This week’s issue

Lunes de potrero: what a muddy pitch taught a whole league

Forty thousand people watched a ball that would not bounce, and the best passage of play came from a side that stopped trying to pass.

No. 156 · Nov 9, 2026 · 9 min read

Floodlit stadium seen from high seats at night

It rained from the first minute. By the second half the centre circle was a puddle, and the only team that looked comfortable was the one that had trained that week on the patch of dirt behind the club.

This week I go through the goal that decided it, talk to the groundsman who told me at ten in the morning it would be a draw, and make the case that the pitch deserves a place in the match report.

Plus: your messages about the new kick-off times, a short note on the commentary booth’s worst chair, and the one tackle I still cannot decide about.

Read: Lunes de potrero: what a muddy pitch taught a whole league

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Facundo Ledesma Ibarra

Twenty years on the microphone, and I still prefer the pitch behind the house

I’m Facundo. I called my first match on a local radio station in 2006, from a plastic chair with a microphone taped to a broom handle. Since then I have commentated on four continents, appeared on a late-night panel for nine seasons and learned to keep going when the feed drops.

Lunes de potrero began in 2023 as a Monday message to the friends I used to play with on a dirt pitch. It is still free, still written on Sunday night, and still one long read plus whatever the weekend left over.

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