Gael Ruiz

Striker - Central Norte U18
3 Jan 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Gael Ruiz

2 Edition

The Central Norte Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Central Norte

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

Squad

A row about effort at Central Norte

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

Market

One of our own: Cristian Suárez joins the Central Norte first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristian Suárez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Fernando Pereyra joins the Central Norte first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Pereyra is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Central Norte promote Gael Ruiz from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gael Ruiz has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Juan Manuel Moretti joins the Central Norte first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Manuel Moretti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gianluca Mancuso

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

The dugout

Franco Figueroa: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

Agustín Aleo 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.

In brief