Marked for Ezequiel Viola
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets26 Oct 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad26 Oct 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 Cooper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Cooper know which stage they are at.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Cooper
Exequiel Márquez 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
125% of the income goes out in wages at Cooper
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fernando Pineda and Cooper agree another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Cooper
Exequiel Márquez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Cooper know which stage they are at.
Market21 Sep 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Franco Costantino is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Cooper
Franco Valdez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Cooper are still strangers to each other
21 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sebastián Barrios and Cooper agree another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Cooper
Exequiel Márquez 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
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Cooper know which stage they are at.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Cooper
0‑4 against Colon, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Cooper are taken apart by Colon — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías Nicosia and Cooper agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Ezequiel Viola
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Cooper will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Aug 2026
Matías Nicosia signs for Cooper to fix the gap everybody could see
There is a particular relief in a club addressing the thing its own crowd has been shouting about. Matías Nicosia arrives for exactly that job, and now he has to do it.
Market17 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
In brief
-
Squad
Too much change too quickly at Cooper
-
Market
Cooper bring in an old head
-
Market
Cooper bring in an old head