Marked for Dylan Arias
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market14 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dock Sud, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Jun 2027
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Dock Sud can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Dock Sud
Leandro Iglesias and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match12 Jun 2027
Villa Dálmine made Dock Sud work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Dock Sud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ariel Barreiro 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.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Wages swallow 98% of the Dock Sud 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.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.65 on the card, and the Dock Sud support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market19 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dock Sud can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Juan Bobba: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dock Sud have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Dock Sud
Leandro Iglesias 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Dock Sud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Villalba 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Flandria, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomás Tello, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 38, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Mauro Bazán signs a new deal
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The dugout
A promise honoured for Dylan Arias
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Dock Sud
Leandro Iglesias and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Santiago Kojro
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Federico Sardella and Dock Sud agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market12 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Dock Sud
Federico Sardella arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
When it matters, Román Pérez plays
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Dylan Arias 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 Dylan Arias trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Agustín Ávalos keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dock Sud say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ramón Córdoba has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Dock Sud know it, and so does everybody who watches him.