Evelio Cardozo

Central Midfielder - Nueva Chicago
8 Jun 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Evelio Cardozo

43 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Dylan Gissi out for 152 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nueva Chicago will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Braian Toloza keeps the receipts

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

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at Nueva Chicago

Dylan Gissi 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

Luciano Jachfe 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

Agropecuario Argentino take the points off Nueva Chicago

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

The dugout

Luciano Jachfe 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Valentín Rossi left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Bookings catch up with Rodrigo Ramírez

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Nueva Chicago will feel it on Saturday.

In brief

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42 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Dylan Gissi breaks a bone — 159 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 159 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Diego Arroyo keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Nueva Chicago

Luciano Jachfe 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

Gabriel Vega 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

Nueva Chicago see off Almirante Brown

Three points for Nueva Chicago, 1‑0 the final word against Almirante Brown in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Evelio Cardozo was the difference for Nueva Chicago

Marked 7.98. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Valentín Rossi: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

The dugout

Roberto Acosta 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Evelio Cardozo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

41 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dylan Gissi breaks a bone — 166 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 166 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Only the photograph left for Thiago Ocampo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thiago Ocampo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nueva Chicago the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Nueva Chicago

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

Squad

Evelio Cardozo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Evelio Cardozo and Nueva Chicago agree another 3 years.

Squad

Luciano Jachfe 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

Facundo Castro 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.

The dugout

Valentín Rossi on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Valentín Rossi after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Iván Antunes dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match

Nueva Chicago draw a blank against San Lorenzo

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. San Lorenzo defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

40 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bruno Palazzo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nueva Chicago can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Dylan Gissi 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 Nueva Chicago this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Evelio Cardozo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Evelio Cardozo and Nueva Chicago agree another 3 years.

Squad

Words at Nueva Chicago training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luciano Jachfe 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

Braian Toloza named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Braian Toloza is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Trindade

“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.

Player ratings

Matías Romero runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Valentín Rossi on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Valentín Rossi after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Looking ahead

Nueva Chicago take on the side everybody is chasing

San Lorenzo arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

38 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at Nueva Chicago

Dylan Gissi 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

A row about effort at Nueva Chicago

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Thiago Ocampo

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

Match

Gabriel Vega sends Nueva Chicago past Defensores Unidos

It finished 1‑0, and it was Gabriel Vega’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Nueva Chicago.

Player ratings

Gabriel Vega in the eights

A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Ramiro Balbuena runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

“I want to play”: Thiago Ocampo speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Valentín Rossi, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Juan Cabrera dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

36 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bruno Palazzo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nueva Chicago, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Lautaro Candia was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. 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

A falling-out at Nueva Chicago

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

Squad

A row about effort at Nueva Chicago

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

Squad

Facundo Castro is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Facundo Castro has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Player ratings

Bruno Palazzo was the difference for Nueva Chicago

Marked 7.29. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

Dylan Gissi named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Dylan Gissi is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alejandro Almaraz

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

The dugout

Bruno Palazzo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bruno Palazzo is on it.

In brief

34 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words at Nueva Chicago training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luciano Jachfe 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

Words exchanged at Nueva Chicago

Facundo Castro 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

Gabriel Vega sends Nueva Chicago past Colón

It finished 1‑0, and it was Gabriel Vega’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Nueva Chicago.

Player ratings

Gabriel Vega in the eights

A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

Valentín Rossi has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Valentín Rossi on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Gonzalo Trindade 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

Evelio Cardozo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Evelio Cardozo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nueva Chicago will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Facundo Castro knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nueva Chicago, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

33 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Matías Romero says Nueva Chicago went back on their word

“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.

Match

The drought breaks for Nueva Chicago

10 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Morón were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Evelio Cardozo — 7.89

Marked 7.89. 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

Dylan Gissi 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 Nueva Chicago this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nueva Chicago get the job done against Morón

A 2‑0 win over Morón, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Gabriel Vega 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.

Squad

Evelio Cardozo makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout

No hiding place for Iván Antunes

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

Player ratings

Gabriel Vega takes the honours

Marked 7.98 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Nueva Chicago had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

27 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Nueva Chicago turn down Dobrudzha for Matías Bergara

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Nueva Chicago

Luciano Jachfe 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Matías Romero

“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.

Squad

Diego Arroyo 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.

Market

Talks stall between Nueva Chicago and Evelio Cardozo

“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 dugout

Braian Toloza gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Braian Toloza is on it.

The dugout

Facundo Castro 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.

Squad

Tomás Sánchez remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Nueva Chicago would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Market

The Rodrigo Ramírez talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nueva Chicago know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

26 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Guillermo Ferracuti puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nueva Chicago, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Facundo Castro keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at Nueva Chicago

Dylan Gissi 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

A row about effort at Nueva Chicago

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Iván Antunes

“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.

The dugout

Evelio Cardozo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nueva Chicago will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Matías Romero 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.

Market

The Bruno Palazzo talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nueva Chicago know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Bruno Palazzo placed on the list

Nueva Chicago have made Bruno Palazzo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

24 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alejandro Almaraz agrees terms with Doxa

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Nueva Chicago people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Lautaro Candia hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nueva Chicago can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Pianese come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nueva Chicago did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A falling-out at Nueva Chicago

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

Squad

Nueva Chicago count the cost of losing Facundo Castro

19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Matías Bergara 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.

Transfer targets

Lucas Sauer stays at Chaco For Ever as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Nueva Chicago will try again when the window opens; Chaco For Ever may not be selling by then.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dylan Gissi

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

The dugout

Matías Bergara 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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

General Caballero come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nueva Chicago did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Bruno Palazzo asks to leave Nueva Chicago

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

$280.0K settles it between the clubs for Lucas Sauer

Chaco For Ever have accepted the money. What Nueva Chicago do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

The dugout

Alejandro Almaraz says Nueva Chicago went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nueva Chicago

Dylan Gissi 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

Luciano Jachfe 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.

Transfer targets

Nueva Chicago rebuffed over Gabriel Vázquez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Quilmes have kept their man, and Nueva Chicago go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Doxa watching Alejandro Almaraz

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Nueva Chicago have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout

No hiding place for Tomás Sánchez

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

In brief

22 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Alan Ruiz out for 16 days

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

Market

Guillermo Ferracuti puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nueva Chicago, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Business is business: Sebastián Cocimano goes

Cienciano paid $1.9M and Nueva Chicago took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Tempers go at Nueva Chicago

Dylan Gissi 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

A row about effort at Nueva Chicago

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

Boardroom

152% of the income goes out in wages at Nueva Chicago

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Trindade

“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.

The dugout

Emiliano Méndez knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nueva Chicago, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

A loan that did nothing for Matías Bergara

0 appearances and 0 goals is not a season away, it is a year lost. He is back at Nueva Chicago no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their fault.

In brief

18 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ezequiel Vitale

150 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nueva Chicago lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Guillermo Ferracuti asks to leave Nueva Chicago

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Nueva Chicago

Dylan Gissi 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

A row about effort at Nueva Chicago

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

Boardroom

145% of the income goes out in wages at Nueva Chicago

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.

The dugout

Valentino De Luca 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.

The dugout

Roberto Acosta knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nueva Chicago, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Evelio Cardozo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Evelio Cardozo is on it.

Market

The Rodrigo Ramírez question follows Nueva Chicago around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rodrigo Ramírez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

14 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Alan Ruiz out for 72 days

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

The dugout

Emiliano Méndez keeps the receipts

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

Market

Guillermo Ferracuti asks to leave Nueva Chicago

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nueva Chicago

Facundo Castro 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

Luciano Jachfe 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 145% of the Nueva Chicago 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

The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Trindade

“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.

The dugout

Evelio Cardozo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Evelio Cardozo is on it.

Squad

The armband comes off Bruno Palazzo

Nueva Chicago will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

In brief

10 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alan Ruiz damages knee ligaments — 100 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 100 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.

Market

Guillermo Ferracuti puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nueva Chicago, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Nueva Chicago

Dylan Gissi 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

Enzo Roldán 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 170% of the Nueva Chicago 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

The manager makes an example of Evelio Cardozo

“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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Nueva Chicago

21 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.

The dugout

Roberto Acosta knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Roberto Acosta trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

When it matters, Evelio Cardozo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

9 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Alan Ruiz out for 107 days

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

Match

5 matches without a win for Nueva Chicago

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Nueva Chicago are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Dylan Gissi 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 Nueva Chicago this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Facundo Castro 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

Nueva Chicago come up short against Mitre

Mitre left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Thiago Ocampo

“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.

Squad

Nueva Chicago count the cost of losing Elías Machuca

54 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Loan watch

Matías Bergara wants to come home

“I did not go to Ararat to sit and watch. I want to come back to Nueva Chicago and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Valentín Rossi left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief