Víctor Rojas 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 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.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sol de America can tell you which week it ends in.
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Carlos Samudio.
In brief
Player ratingsThe afternoon belonged to Joel Jiménez
The words a physio says slowly. 68 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.
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Sol de America scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sol de America this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aquilino Giménez and Sol de America agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Sol de America training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brahian Fernández 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.
Emanuel Kovacs 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 message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Carlos Samudio plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Words at Sol de America training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Román 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.
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 34 with 227 appearances behind him, and Sol de America have to plan for both answers.
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aquilino Giménez and Sol de America agree another 2 years.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sol de America this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Sol de America training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Román 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.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sol de America, another week without a signature from Aquilino Giménez.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sol de America has been clear about where Julio Rivarola stands, which is more than many ever get.
49 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.