Facundo Mansilla

Central Defender - Central Córdoba SdE
15 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Facundo Mansilla

15 Edition

The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lucas Varaldo

21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Central Córdoba SdE lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

A European night to remember for Central Córdoba SdE

0‑0 against Progreso, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Squad

Tempers go at Central Córdoba SdE

Michael Santos 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.

Squad

Santiago Moyano 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.

Player ratings

Horacio Tijanovich was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Facundo Mansilla

“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.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Central Córdoba SdE

Something was said to Fernando Martínez and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Michael Santos gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Michael Santos is on it.

The dugout

Juan Pablo Pignani 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.

In brief