The Chacarita Juniors Post
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A debut Juan Maone will not forget — 7.65
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.65 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Franco Pulian, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.87
A mark of 7.87 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market3 Aug 2026
Eyes on Lisandro Montenegro again
The phone has started ringing about Lisandro Montenegro again, and this time the name on the line is Carpi. Chacarita Juniors are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sergio Vittor signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sergio Vittor and Chacarita Juniors agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sergio Vittor 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 Chacarita Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
One of their own: Maximiliano Meléndez
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match1 Aug 2026
Maximiliano Meléndez the difference as Chacarita Juniors beat Central Norte
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Maximiliano Meléndez. 2‑0 against Central Norte, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Maximiliano Meléndez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.31. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Axel Guerra 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.
In brief
- Market The clock runs on Gonzalo Mottes's contract
- Squad Chacarita Juniors are still strangers to each other
- The dugout The manager’s verdict