Engel Steffen

Goalkeeper - Encarnacion
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Engel Steffen

5 Edition

The Encarnacion Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 Aug 2026

Encarnacion lose César Carrizo

18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match29 Aug 2026

4 matches without a win for Encarnacion

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Encarnacion

Diego Aguada 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Alberto Montiel’s goal not enough for Encarnacion

Alberto Montiel scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Independiente CG, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

César Carrizo 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 dugout31 Aug 2026

Fernando Alderete faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Fernando Alderete after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Encarnacion

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

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Engel Steffen 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 Encarnacion, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The first one for Alberto Montiel

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Encarnacion have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Encarnacion Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match12 Aug 2026

The cup run ends for Encarnacion

0‑2 against Sportivo Trinidense, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Gustavo Medina arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Gustavo Medina has, at Encarnacion, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A one-man rearguard from Engel Steffen

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market17 Aug 2026

Hugo Noguera is a Encarnacion player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Diego Aguada 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 Encarnacion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market17 Aug 2026

Samuel Giménez already looking beyond Encarnacion

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Alberto Montiel 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

No place for Carlos Martínez Guillén in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Encarnacion are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market17 Aug 2026

Engel Steffen signs for Encarnacion to fix the gap everybody could see

There is a particular relief in a club addressing the thing its own crowd has been shouting about. Engel Steffen arrives for exactly that job, and now he has to do it.

In brief