The Central Norte Courier
Market14 Feb 2028
Santiago Cuellar 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 Norte can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Central Norte
Joaquín Mateo 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 ratings14 Feb 2028
Franco Vedoya was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Joaquín Mateo takes the honours
Marked 7.58 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Central Norte had the best player on the pitch.
Match12 Feb 2028
Kevin Isa Luna rescues a point for Central Norte
It needed Kevin Isa Luna to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Agropecuario Argentino, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
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.” Daniel Escobar chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tiago Rodríguez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market14 Feb 2028
Gianluca Mancuso linked with a move away
The name of Gianluca Mancuso keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Central Norte say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Ramiro Costa left out for tactical reasons at Central Norte
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Leandro Vilte plays
- Squad Gianluca Mancuso has seen what the next man earns
- The dugout Ignacio Soria knocks on the manager’s door