Marked for Lisandro Silva
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Uneasy
Squad8 Nov 2027
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Nawel da Silva
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Canadian will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Canadian
Mateo Álvarez 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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Canadian counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Canadian now.
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Uneasy
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Pressure builds in the Canadian boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Mateo Álvarez 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.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Wages swallow 144% of the Canadian income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Market1 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Santiago Álvarez is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián Cardozo, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Dylan Pihuala has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Canadian 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 dugout1 Nov 2027
Tomás Olivarez knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Tomás Olivarez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The training reports on Sebastián Cardozo are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
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Upbeat
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
No sign of nerves from Nawel da Silva at 21 — 8.00
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nawel da Silva did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match10 Apr 2027
Nobody wants to play Canadian right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Canadian
Mateo Álvarez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Apr 2027
A 1‑0 win over Mar de Fondo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hans Müller, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Emiliano Gomez could afford to be generous.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Dylan Pihuala asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Kevin Riverón
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Canadian had a different afternoon.
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Steady
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Up for the corner, and Facundo Barreto delivers — 7.70
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Facundo Barreto scored, was marked 7.70, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Anthony Souza commits to Canadian for another 4 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Canadian this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Canadian training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianluca Motta 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
1‑2 to Villa Teresa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“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.
Market8 Mar 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Canadian, another week without a signature from Leandro Domínguez.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
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 1‑2 Emiliano Gomez left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Lisandro Silva
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Lisandro Silva has come out of that comparison in the side, and Canadian have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Matías Losada, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Canadian
Mateo Álvarez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at Canadian
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
64 days out for Kevin Riverón after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Canadian will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets28 Sep 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Canadian
Diego Ríos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lisandro Silva and Canadian agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market28 Sep 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Nawel da Silva
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Canadian were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Canadian are still strangers to each other
28 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.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Diego Ríos 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 Canadian this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lisandro Silva and Canadian agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market21 Sep 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.