Valentín Muñoz

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Central Norte U18
18 Apr 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Valentín Muñoz

470 Edition

The Central Norte Courier

30 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Central Norte's wait for a win

14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Central Norte has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Central Norte board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Maximiliano Fernández 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 Central Norte can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Central Norte

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Central Norte is running low.

Player ratings

Vintage Franco Vedoya — 8.09

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.09, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Francisco Borda is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Enzo Quiroga

Central Norte asked and Lanús said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A falling-out at Central Norte

Cristian Gorgerino 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 Santiago Fonzo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief