Iván López

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
24 Jun 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Iván López

47 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Lautaro Candia 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.

Match

4 matches without a win for Nueva Chicago

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Nueva Chicago are no longer polite ones.

Transfer targets

An offer of $170.0K for Rodrigo Monserrat

Nueva Chicago have gone to Colegiales with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Tempers go at Nueva Chicago

Luciano Jachfe 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.

Loan watch

Matías Romero keeps scoring at Deportes Recoleta

15 appearances away from home and 16 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Nueva Chicago

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.

The dugout

Matías Bergara 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Nueva Chicago against Temperley

0‑1 to Temperley, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Nueva Chicago training over how hard people work

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

In brief

  • Squad The decline has begun for Iván López
  • The dugout A promise honoured at Nueva Chicago
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
Back issues
26 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Luciano Jachfe damages knee ligaments — 57 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 57 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

Sebastián Cocimano attracts admirers

The name of Sebastián Cocimano has come up in conversations Nueva Chicago were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Tempers go at Nueva Chicago

Luciano Jachfe 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 Matías Bergara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Nueva Chicago count the cost of losing Iván López

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

The dugout

Sebastián Cocimano 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

No hiding place for Javier Pereyra

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

The dugout

Ramiro Balbuena 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.

In brief