The Chacarita Juniors Post
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tomás Pérez Serra breaks a bone — 116 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 116 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
Mario Russo 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
Leo Ocampo 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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 dugout1 Feb 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Levadia watching Ezequiel Gerez
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Chacarita Juniors have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad1 Feb 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A promotion for Benicio Méndez
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Benicio Méndez has moved up it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Mario Sanabria 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.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Gonzalo Dell Aquila
- Market The Maximiliano Meléndez story refuses to die
- Market Chacarita Juniors and Santiago Landi are talking past each other