Cristian Falla

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
17 Aug 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Cristian Falla

73 Edition

The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Silverware for Central Córdoba SdE

They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.

Boardroom

Central Córdoba SdE are going up

Promotion, confirmed and mathematical, and a town that will not sleep much tonight. Whatever else this season had in it, it ends a division higher than it began.

Squad

The season belongs to Michael Santos

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Central Córdoba SdE have had the benefit of it.

Transfer targets

Martín Reinoso is a medical away from Central Córdoba SdE

The deal with Argentinos Juniors is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Cristian Falla hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Central Córdoba SdE can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Lucas González 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 Central Córdoba SdE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Central Córdoba SdE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Pablo Pignani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

José Gómez wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

The dugout

No hiding place for Joaquín Flores

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joaquín Flores, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
29 Edition

The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Horacio Tijanovich

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Joaquín Flores, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60

A mark of 7.60 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Central Córdoba SdE

Michael Santos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Facundo Mansilla shuts the door

Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Match

Michael Santos sends Central Córdoba SdE past Colón

It finished 1‑0, and it was Michael Santos’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Central Córdoba SdE.

Market

José Gómez wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Player ratings

Michael Santos was the difference for Central Córdoba SdE

Marked 7.78. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

6 new faces, and Central Córdoba SdE 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 dugout

Ezequiel De Luca has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Ezequiel De Luca on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief