Marked for Nicolás Ferreyra
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Nov 2027
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rosario Central lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match15 Nov 2027
Position 3 and 26 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Rosario Central may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market15 Nov 2027
Only the photograph left for Tomás Salteño
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tomás Salteño will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosario Central the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Mario Galeano 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Juan Velázquez 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Iván Chaves
“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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market15 Nov 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rosario Central know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad8 Nov 2027
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rosario Central lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.54 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match6 Nov 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Rosario Central have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad8 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rosario Central this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match6 Nov 2027
Tigre made Rosario Central work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Juan Velázquez 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.
Loan watch8 Nov 2027
30 appearances at Cobresal and the goals keep coming. Rosario Central are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Enzo Copetti
“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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Felipe Carnicero and Rosario Central agree another 4 years.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alan Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rosario Central this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolás Ferreyra and Rosario Central agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Alexis Soto dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Looking ahead19 Apr 2027
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Racing Club.