Marked for Rodrigo Cano
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Rodrigo Cano, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.83
A mark of 7.83 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Leandro Iglesias 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.
Match21 Nov 2026
Dock Sud rescue it on 87 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 87. Villa Dálmine had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad23 Nov 2026
6 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nazareno López, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Agustín Ávalos pops up at the right end — 7.85
7.85, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Sebastián Vivas’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dock Sud.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Sebastián Vivas at his very best
Marked 8.54. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dock Sud.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Cataldi, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Dock Sud
22 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Sebastián Pérez could afford to be generous.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Sergio Modón, 34, rolls back the years — 7.95
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.95 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Agustín Ávalos delivers — 7.89
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Agustín Ávalos scored, was marked 7.89, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sergio Modón. 3‑1 against Deportivo Laferrere, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Dock Sud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Villalba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Deportivo Laferrere tried to reorganise, Dock Sud did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Sep 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 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nazareno López
“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 dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Pablo Despósito is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Rodrigo Cano
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Rodrigo Cano has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dock Sud have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Dock Sud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Bobba 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Sergio Modón. Dock Sud will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
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 Federico Otero is on it.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Deportivo Laferrere next, and one man in the Dock Sud dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
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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.