Alejandro Tapia

Left Back - Central Norte
13 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Alejandro Tapia

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The Central Norte Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Adrian Aguierre asks to leave Central Norte

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Words exchanged at Central Norte

Agustín Lamosa 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.

Squad

Words at Central Norte training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Villarreal 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alejandro Tapia

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Franco Vedoya

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Joaquín Mateo slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Joaquín Mateo is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad

Alejandro Tapia: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Central Norte will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

The dugout

The form table has caught Alejandro Tapia

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Facundo Ramírez chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief