Enzo Borgarelli

Striker - Chacarita Juniors
4 Jan 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Enzo Borgarelli

127 Edition

The Chacarita Juniors Post

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Franco Pulian has said yes to San Miguel

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Chacarita Juniors have lost him in all but the paperwork.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Miqueas Pintos

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Chacarita Juniors have done the hard part with All Boys, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Chacarita Juniors

Francisco Facello and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ariel Molas

Chacarita Juniors asked and Boca Juniors said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Chacarita Juniors

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

The dugout

Enzo Borgarelli 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 93% of everything Chacarita Juniors earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Transfer targets

Chacarita Juniors try to borrow Nahuel Ciro

Colón have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

Back issues
123 Edition

The Chacarita Juniors Post

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Julián Domke asks to leave Chacarita Juniors

“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.

The dugout

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Squad

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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Chacarita Juniors

Gonzalo Dell Aquila 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Enzo Borgarelli

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Transfer targets

Chacarita Juniors ask about Cristian Jiménez Osuna

A loan enquiry to Banfield: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Chacarita Juniors keep their word to Julián Domke

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Market

Los Andes expected to open talks for Santino Carrizo

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Chacarita Juniors will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

The dugout

When it matters, Misael Jaime 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.

In brief

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The Chacarita Juniors Post

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

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Squad

Words at Chacarita Juniors training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Sanabria 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Chacarita Juniors

Pablo Ortiz 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.

The dugout

Enzo Borgarelli 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 dugout

Sergio Vittor asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Misael Jaime gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Misael Jaime is on it.

In brief

118 Edition

The Chacarita Juniors Post

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Enzo Borgarelli says Chacarita Juniors went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

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Squad

Chacarita Juniors lose Gonzalo Mottes

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

Squad

Francisco Facello 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.

Squad

Mario Sanabria 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 dugout

No hiding place for Milton Leyendeker

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

In brief

107 Edition

The Chacarita Juniors Post

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Julián Marino

64 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chacarita Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

No mercy from Chacarita Juniors

Chaco For Ever will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Chacarita Juniors were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Cristian Bordacahar scores twice — 9.30

Two goals and a mark of 9.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Chacarita Juniors say no — this time

The offer from Inter for Pablo Ortiz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Santino Carrizo, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66

A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout

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Squad

Mario Sanabria 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Chacarita Juniors

Gonzalo Dell Aquila 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Santino Carrizo

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

102 Edition

The Chacarita Juniors Post

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Julián Marino out for 99 days

99 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Chacarita Juniors lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Chacarita Juniors run riot against Morón

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Terms done: Luciano Perdomo is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Newell's Old Boys waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Chacarita Juniors is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings

Both of them Cristian Bordacahar's — 9.22

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.22, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Julián Domke asks to leave Chacarita Juniors

“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.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Nicolás Molina is a medical away from Chacarita Juniors

The deal with Temperley is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Agropecuario Argentino come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Chacarita Juniors did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Mario Sanabria runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

97 Edition

The Chacarita Juniors Post

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Lisandro Montenegro hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chacarita Juniors can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Federico Losas stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Chacarita Juniors say no — this time

The offer from Arema for Pablo Ortiz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Mario Sanabria runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at Chacarita Juniors

Francisco Facello 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.

The dugout

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Market

Newell's Old Boys are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Chacarita Juniors will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Eyes on Franco Pulian again

The phone has started ringing about Franco Pulian again, and this time the name on the line is Los Andes. Chacarita Juniors are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Mario Sanabria 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

82 Edition

The Chacarita Juniors Post

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cristian Bordacahar breaks a bone — 39 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Pablo Ortiz keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chacarita Juniors may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Chacarita Juniors say no — this time

The offer from Chornomorets for Pablo Ortiz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Julián Domke hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chacarita Juniors can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

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Player ratings

Mario Sanabria runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A falling-out at Chacarita Juniors

Francisco Facello and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Chacarita Juniors training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Sanabria 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.

Match

Late, late show earns Chacarita Juniors a point

Minute 85, against San Martín SJ, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

In brief

77 Edition

The Chacarita Juniors Post

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Cristian Bordacahar breaks a bone — 74 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Chacarita Juniors up to position 3

58 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Julián Domke puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Chacarita Juniors, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Chacarita Juniors

Francisco Facello 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.

Market

Franco Pulian attracts admirers

The name of Franco Pulian has come up in conversations Chacarita Juniors were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

A row about effort at Chacarita Juniors

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

Squad

Enzo Borgarelli is a square peg at Chacarita Juniors

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

Federico Losas asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Pablo Ortiz has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Chacarita Juniors 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

74 Edition

The Trento Courier

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Amer Mehić damages knee ligaments — 44 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 44 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.

Player ratings

Pasquale Giannotti beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Nicola Dalmonte 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 Trento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Trento supporters have found a favourite in Mattia Maffei

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mattia Maffei has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Federico Caia sends Trento past Virtus Verona

It finished 1‑0, and it was Federico Caia’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Trento.

The dugout

No hiding place for Francesco Benassai

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

Squad

Home is on Enzo Borgarelli's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Trento are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Player ratings

Mattia Maffei takes the honours

Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Trento had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Domenico Lucchesi: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

65 Edition

The Trento Courier

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Santiago Kojro: 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.” Trento have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

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Match

Nobody wants to play Trento right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Tempers go at Trento

Nicola Dalmonte 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.

Player ratings

Pasquale Giannotti beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The terraces

One of their own: Mattia Maffei

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marco Fossati

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

Match

Trento find a way past Giana Erminio

Giana Erminio made Trento work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Christian Aucelli in the eights

A performance of 8.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

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The Trento Courier

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

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Market

Enzo Borgarelli asks to leave Trento

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Trento

Nicola Dalmonte 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Filippo Frison

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

A step back for Santiago Kojro at Trento

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Market

No place for Marco Rossello in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marco Rossello has his answer from Trento; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Francesco Benassai knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Francesco Benassai trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Christian Aucelli linked with a move away

The name of Christian Aucelli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Trento say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

When it matters, Andrea Sodero 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.

In brief

47 Edition

The Trento Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Pasquale Giannotti 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 Trento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Francesco Costantini is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Valentín Luciani

Trento asked and Fenix said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Enzo Borgarelli wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Trento can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Transfer targets

Trento try to borrow Gabriel Silva

Sporting CP have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

When it matters, Pietro Candelari 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.

Squad

Words at Trento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Sodero 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.

Market

The Luca Lipani question follows Trento around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luca Lipani’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Match

Trento in the hunt for Europe

Position 4, 66 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.

In brief

38 Edition

The Trento Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Zylyf Muça asks to leave Trento

“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.

Market

Zylyf Muça is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Trento is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Pietro Candelari 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 Trento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Andrea Trainotti 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.

Squad

Home is on Enzo Borgarelli's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Trento are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

When it matters, Pietro Candelari 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Trento

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

Squad

Jacopo Pellegrini named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Jacopo Pellegrini has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

The dugout

Filippo Frison knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Filippo Frison trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

29 Edition

The Trento Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

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Player ratings

Nobody could get near Pietro Candelari

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Trento

Pietro Candelari 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Trento against Union Brescia

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

Squad

Home is on Enzo Borgarelli's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Trento are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

Domenico Lucchesi faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Domenico Lucchesi after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Pietro Candelari gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pietro Candelari is on it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Federico Caia

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

Squad

Words at Trento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Sodero 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