5 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process
18 Edition

The Cooper Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

13 unbeaten for Cooper

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Cooper did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A falling-out at Cooper

Santiago Maidana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Cooper end the wait against Parque del Plata

It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad

Jesús Molina 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 220% of the Cooper income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

The dugout

No hiding place for Diego Celis

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Diego Celis, and the manager let it.

Match

Matías González the difference as Cooper beat Parque del Plata

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Matías González. 1‑0 against Parque del Plata, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Santiago Correa was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Player ratings

Matías González was the difference for Cooper

Marked 7.86. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

  • The dugout The form table has caught Diego Celis
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Diego Córdoba knocks on the manager’s door
Back issues
17 Edition

The Cooper Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Still nobody has beaten Cooper

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

The wait goes on for Cooper

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Matías González runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Mauro Rolando keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cooper may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A falling-out at Cooper

Jesús Molina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

The goals have deserted Cooper

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Cooper can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

A row about effort at Cooper

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Arístides López

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arístides López, and the manager let it.

Squad

10 new faces, and Cooper are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Diego Celis
  • Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Santiago Rodríguez
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
16 Edition

The Cooper Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Cooper

Santiago Maidana 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.

The dugout

Martín Molina 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Cooper

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mauro Rolando was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Arístides López asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Looking ahead

Francisco Ibáñez goes back to face Salto

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Francisco Ibáñez’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Cooper needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout

The manager makes David Sueldo a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Cooper. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

15 Edition

The Cooper Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Whatever happens, Cooper do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match

No end in sight to Cooper's wait for a win

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

Squad

Fabricio Pérez Espósito 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 Cooper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Santiago Rodríguez beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A row about effort at Cooper

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesús Molina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Cooper promote Alvaro Rossi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alvaro Rossi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

The dugout

No hiding place for Agustín Rodríguez

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín Rodríguez, and the manager let it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Rodrigo Lemos

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Felipe Sanchez was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Cooper dressing room was either.

In brief

14 Edition

The Cooper Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

10 unbeaten for Cooper

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Cooper did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings

Diego Celis beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

No end in sight to Cooper's wait for a win

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

Squad

A falling-out at Cooper

Fabricio Pérez Espósito and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Jesús Molina 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 220% of the Cooper income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

The dugout

No hiding place for Diego Córdoba

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Diego Córdoba, and the manager let it.

Match

Cooper rescue it on 95 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Lito had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

The form table has caught Ignacio Nicolini

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

13 Edition

The Cooper Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Matías González

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

8 unbeaten for Cooper

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Cooper did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cooper

Fabricio Pérez Espósito and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Cooper

30 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

A row about effort at Cooper

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mauro Rolando was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Diego Celis

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Felipe Sanchez on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

Rodrigo Lemos asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Match

No goals between Cooper and Potencia

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Potencia will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

12 Edition

The Cooper Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

7 unbeaten for Cooper

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Cooper did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Diego Farías — 7.82

Marked 7.82. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Squad

Tempers go at Cooper

Santiago Maidana 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

Jesús Molina 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

After 6 games, Cooper finally taste it again

The first defeat in 6 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Canadian; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

The dugout

César Horst 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.

Squad

50 goals in the shirt for Joaquín Perdomo

50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Joaquín Perdomo at his very best

Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cooper.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 87 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Cooper had all but put away. Canadian will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

In brief

11 Edition

The Cooper Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Santiago Maidana 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 Cooper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Time is catching up with Rodrigo Lemos

Everybody at Cooper saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Squad

Agustín 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Cooper Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Cooper right now

6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Fabricio Pérez Espósito yet — 8.12

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.12 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cooper

Jesús Molina and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Another one collected away from home

4 on the bounce on the road for Cooper. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad

The decline has begun for Andrés Ravecca

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Cooper is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Boardroom

Wages eat 191% of everything Cooper earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Match

Santiago Rodríguez sends Cooper past Deutscher FK

It finished 2‑0, and it was Santiago Rodríguez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cooper.

The dugout

Diego Córdoba 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Santiago Rodríguez at his very best

Marked 8.49. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cooper.

In brief

9 Edition

The Cooper Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cooper make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cooper have 5 straight wins of it.

Transfer targets

Aldo Galeano turns down Cooper

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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cooper

Santiago Maidana and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Jesús Molina 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 terraces

One of their own: Cristhian Báez

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Cooper keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Match

Cooper find a way past Deportivo Italiano

Deportivo Italiano made Cooper work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Fabricio Pérez Espósito runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Jesús Molina needs a bigger stage

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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Cooper Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Martín Molina out for 20 days

20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cooper lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Tempers go at Cooper

Fabricio Pérez Espósito 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 Mareco 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 dugout

Agustín Rodríguez asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Looking ahead

Santiago Correa goes back to face Deportivo Italiano

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Santiago Correa’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Cooper needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Squad

Somebody is after Fabricio Pérez Espósito’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Fabricio Pérez Espósito suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Cooper have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

7 Edition

The Cooper Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Martín Molina out for 27 days

27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cooper lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Cooper make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cooper have 4 straight wins of it.

Squad

Fabricio Pérez Espósito 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 Cooper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Cooper get the job done against Huracan Buceo

A 2‑1 win over Huracan Buceo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Eduardo Aguirre steps up from the Cooper academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Eduardo Aguirre has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Player ratings

Santiago Rodríguez in the eights

A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Joaquín Rodríguez in the eights

A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Words at Cooper training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauro Rolando 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 dugout

Cooper pick somebody else ahead of Diego Celis

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

6 Edition

The Cooper Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Martín Molina out for 34 days

34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cooper lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A falling-out at Cooper

Fabricio Pérez Espósito and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Joaquín Machado will join Cooper for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Joaquín Machado has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Cooper have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

Words at Cooper training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Mareco 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.

Squad

Fabricio Pérez Espósito has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Cooper know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Market

Experience through the door at Cooper

Fabricio Pérez Espósito arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief

5 Edition

The Cooper Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Martín Molina damages knee ligaments — 41 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 41 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.

Match

Cooper tear Alto Peru apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Alto Peru, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them Cristhian Báez's — 8.57

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.57, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Cooper make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cooper have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cooper

Santiago Maidana and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

One of their own: Cristhian Báez

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Joaquín Rodríguez sends Cooper past Villa Espanola

It finished 1‑0, and it was Joaquín Rodríguez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cooper.

Player ratings

Joaquín Rodríguez was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

This league is too small for Santiago Maidana

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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Cooper Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cooper tear Platense apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Platense, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

A brace, and Diego Farías takes the afternoon — 7.97

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Diego Farías provided it, and the 7.97 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Matías Bentos-Pereira delivers — 7.78

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Matías Bentos-Pereira scored, was marked 7.78, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Transfer targets

Gastón Arraya due for a Cooper medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at Cooper

Santiago Maidana 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.

Match

Cooper end the wait against Platense

It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Player ratings

Diego Celis runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Paysandu FC take the points off Cooper

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The terraces

One of their own: Arístides López

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief

3 Edition

The Cooper Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Santiago Castelnoble stands alone

31 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Cooper

A 0‑11 beating by Salus was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match

The wait goes on for Cooper

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Martín Molina comes home

The shirt still fits. Martín Molina is back at Cooper, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

11 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Cooper and Salus in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

Emiliano Gimenez among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Emiliano Gimenez on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Cooper and Villa Teresa.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cooper against Villa Teresa

2‑4 to Villa Teresa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match

Cooper are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

The dugout

No hiding place for Santiago Castelnoble

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Castelnoble, and the manager let it.

In brief

2 Edition

The Cooper Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Matias Pellistri keeps Cooper in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 38 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Cooper

0‑18 against Mar de Fondo, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

Cooper out of the cup

Colon ended it 0‑25. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Colon follows Cooper home

0-25. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

18 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Cooper and Mar de Fondo in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

25 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Cooper and Colon in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Cooper

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

One of our own: Kevin Garcia joins the Cooper first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kevin Garcia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Emiliano Gimenez joins the Cooper first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Emiliano Gimenez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

1 Edition

The Cooper Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Cooper come up short against Terremoto

Terremoto left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Felipe Sanchez faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Felipe Sanchez after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Market

Gino Aguirre slips out the side door

No fee and no fanfare: Gino Aguirre’s time at Cooper ends with a handshake, and Villa Espanola collect a player for the price of his wages. Somebody will call it shrewd; time will name who.

In brief