Juan Sánchez

Central Defender - Encarnacion
6 Jul 2027
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Marked for Juan Sánchez

26 Edition

The Encarnacion Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad25 Jan 2027

Marcelino Ñamandú 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.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words at Encarnacion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Sánchez 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.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

When it matters, Braian Brítez 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.

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7 Edition

The Encarnacion Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Claudio Orquiola runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Encarnacion

Juan Sánchez 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

One of our own: Federico Alderete joins the Encarnacion first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Federico Alderete is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Aarón Troche 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 dugout14 Sep 2026

Oscar Gomez on the point

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

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Aarón Troche 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.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Aarón Troche has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Encarnacion 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 dugout14 Sep 2026

The plan did not have a place for Matías Rodríguez

Nobody at Encarnacion is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Match12 Sep 2026

Encarnacion and Rubio Nu cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Rubio Nu came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

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