The Maipú Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Lisandro Cabrera’s move to Smouha falls through
The deal that would have taken Lisandro Cabrera to Smouha has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Maipú with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Enzo Pérez, 40, rolls back the years — 7.83
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 40, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Maipú
Lisandro Cabrera 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Enzo Pérez 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Fausto Montero
“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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Maipú see off Gimnasia y Tiro
Three points for Maipú, 1‑0 the final word against Gimnasia y Tiro in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Diego Gaitán stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Diego Gaitán and Maipú agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marcelo Eggel runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Matías Viguet's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
- Player ratings Nicolás Heiz stands above it all
- Market No place for Mariano Moyano in the plan
- Market Talks stall between Maipú and Mateo Ortale