Facundo Mallo

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Process

Marked for Facundo Mallo

21 Edition

The Rosario Central Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Rosario Central are in Europe

Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.

Transfer targets

$7.9M settles it between the clubs for Santiago Perez

La Equidad have accepted the money. What Rosario Central do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Ignacio Moreno has said yes to Chacarita Juniors

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Rosario Central have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Rosario Central turn down Colo-Colo for Facundo Mallo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Ángel Di María is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Rosario Central will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Transfer targets

FC Copenhagen tell Rosario Central: Viktor Bjarki Daðason is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

Rosario Central make their move for Federico Álvarez

$250.0K on the table at Tigre. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Eyes on Giovanni Cantizano again

The phone has started ringing about Giovanni Cantizano again, and this time the name on the line is General Caballero. Rosario Central are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

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.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Rosario Central Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ciro Armoa

34 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 ratings

Alejo Veliz scores twice — 9.16

Two goals and a mark of 9.16 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Rosario Central

The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings

Jaminton Campaz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Rosario Central

Álvaro Güich 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.

Squad

Alan Rodríguez 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.

Match

Rosario Central see off Racing Club

Three points for Rosario Central, 2‑0 the final word against Racing Club in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Match

Rosario Central make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

The dugout

Álvaro Güich gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief