The Chacarita Juniors Post
Squad4 Jan 2027
Iván Cardozo damages knee ligaments — 94 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 94 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Miguel Mellado 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.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Thomas Correa signs for San Martín SJ while still at Chacarita Juniors
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Thomas Correa has agreed terms with San Martín SJ for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Julián Velázquez 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brian Calderara 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Maximiliano Meléndez
“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.
In brief
- Market Maipú are about to pick up the phone
- Market The Brian Calderara question follows Chacarita Juniors around
- Market Chacarita Juniors and Johan Murillo are talking past each other