The Central Norte Courier
Squad5 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Matías Villarreal out for 143 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Central Norte will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Age has not caught Ramiro Costa yet — 7.99
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.99 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market5 Apr 2027
Adrian Aguierre puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Central Norte, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Apr 2027
Maximiliano Ribero 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Matías Villarreal 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 Norte this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Maximiliano Ribero 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
Central Norte see off Nueva Chicago
Three points for Central Norte, 2‑1 the final word against Nueva Chicago in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market5 Apr 2027
Matías Villarreal told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Matías Villarreal has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Central Norte.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
Central Norte supporters have found a favourite in Gonzalo Álvez
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Gonzalo Álvez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Match Nobody wins at Central Norte
- Player ratings Agustín Lamosa in the eights
- Squad Tiziano Cabrera is the division's best young player this month