Pucho

Striker - Rosario Central U18
11 May 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Pucho

80 Edition

The Rosario Central Courier

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Milton Zanotti

47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rosario Central lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Rosario Central run riot against Aldosivi

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Abiel Osorio 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 Rosario Central can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

A brace, and Abiel Osorio takes the afternoon — 8.53

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Abiel Osorio provided it, and the 8.53 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

Abiel Osorio: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Rosario Central have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Alexis Melo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rosario Central they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Ángel Di María 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 Rosario Central this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Rosario Central to Jonás Miszczuk

The clock did what River Plate would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Boardroom

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.

In brief