The Fenix Herald
Squad15 Feb 2027
Milton Delgado 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 Fenix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Fenix
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Andrés Barboza 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Daniel Sanchez joins the Fenix first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Sanchez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Feb 2027
Fenix promote Gabriel Silva from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Silva has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market15 Feb 2027
Fenix promote Kevin Varela from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kevin Varela has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Bruno Alvarez joins the Fenix first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bruno Alvarez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Alex Silva 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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Sebastián de Marco
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Player ratings Brian Fernández was the difference for Fenix
- Match Fenix and Progreso take a point apiece
- Boardroom Fenix turn down the training-ground plan