Marked for Ezequiel Cuenca
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
Back issues
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Crisis
Match26 Aug 2026
Dock Sud bow out of the cup
Unión de Santa Fe go through and Dock Sud go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dock Sud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad31 Aug 2026
22 new faces, and Dock Sud are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Sebastián Pérez to a room that had heard them before.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Dock Sud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezequiel Cuenca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Rodrigo Cano obliged against Madryn. 3‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Dock Sud.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Rodrigo Cano at 20 — 8.28
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rodrigo Cano did not need any: 8.28, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Fénix left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Román Pérez
At 21 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Iván Álvarez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.73. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Dock Sud will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
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 Sebastián Pérez left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pablo Despósito commits to Dock Sud for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Pablo Despósito 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market3 Aug 2026
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
A row about effort at Dock Sud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Collares was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dock Sud are still strangers to each other
19 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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Sebastián Pérez on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.