Iván López

Central Midfielder - Nueva Chicago
9 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Iván López

16 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alan Ruiz

58 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.

The dugout

Javier Pereyra: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nueva Chicago have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

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 Enzo Roldán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

When it matters, Lucas Ambrogio 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.

The dugout

Alejandro Almaraz 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.

In brief