The Rosario Central Courier
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Age has not caught Ángel Di María yet — 7.95
At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.95 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Rosario Central
Jeremías Ledesma 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Rosario Central
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Alan 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Rulo joins the Rosario Central first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rulo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Roberto Méndez steps up from the Rosario Central academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roberto Méndez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
Bautista Blanco steps up from the Rosario Central academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bautista Blanco has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
Patrón steps up from the Rosario Central academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrón has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Enzo Copetti was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. 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.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Facundo Mallo
- Squad The manager has not finished forgetting Franco Ibarra's mistake
- Match Rosario Central share the spoils with Atlético Tucumán