The Chaco For Ever Sentinel
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Héctor Zabala out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chaco For Ever will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Feb 2027
Gonzalo Melgarejo 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 Chaco For Ever can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
David Valdez 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 Chaco For Ever this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Agustín Alonso 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Chaco For Ever
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Chaco For Ever training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andres Lioi 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
David Valdez 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Beto steps up from the Chaco For Ever academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Beto has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Pedro Sánchez joins the Chaco For Ever first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pedro Sánchez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Felipe Iglesias joins the Chaco For Ever first team
- Match San Martín SJ take the points off Chaco For Ever
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Chaco For Ever