Marked for Jaminton Campaz
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Quintana
48 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Rosario Central may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Quintana
55 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Gaspar Duarte out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rosario Central will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Oct 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 97th minute. Sarmiento will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad12 Oct 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Enzo Copetti. 3‑2 against Sarmiento, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Alejo Veliz
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Quintana
78 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ramiro Giannone is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Racing Club, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jeremías Ledesma, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Jaminton Campaz had Rosario Central level again within 2 minutes, and Racing Club never got to play with a lead at all.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Quintana
87 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Rosario Central training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Ibarra is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Alejo Veliz
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jorge Broun pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.32 on the card, and the Rosario Central support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Off the bench and decisive: Marco Ruben
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Rosario Central were going nowhere until he came on.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 50. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Carlos Quintana damages knee ligaments — 95 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 95 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match5 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Rosario Central are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Sep 2026
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Facundo Mallo
“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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Quintana
129 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Rosario Central training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo Giménez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Sández commits to Rosario Central for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Emanuel Coronel’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
322 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ángel Di María and Rosario Central agree another 2 years.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Franco Ibarra 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Alejo Veliz
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alejo Veliz. 1‑0 against Huracán, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Jaminton Campaz’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.