Facundo Paz

Left Midfielder - Nueva Chicago
5 Jan 2031
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Marked for Facundo Paz

161 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces27 Aug 2029

Supporters organise against the Nueva Chicago board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad27 Aug 2029

123 days out for Gastón Rodríguez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nueva Chicago will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom27 Aug 2029

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Nueva Chicago

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Match25 Aug 2029

Nueva Chicago end the wait against Defensores Unidos

It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad27 Aug 2029

Gastón Rodríguez 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 Nueva Chicago this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad27 Aug 2029

Words at Nueva Chicago training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Antunes 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.

Player ratings27 Aug 2029

Maximiliano Galeano Silva was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match25 Aug 2029

Nueva Chicago get the job done against Defensores Unidos

A 1‑0 win over Defensores Unidos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings27 Aug 2029

Sebastián Cocimano stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.59 on the card, and the Nueva Chicago support went home talking about one name.

In brief

Back issues
132 Edition

The Nueva Chicago Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Nueva Chicago run out of patience with Martín Moreno

The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Martín Moreno clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.

Market5 Feb 2029

Alan Ruiz has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nueva Chicago they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Maximiliano Ojeda minds the shop at Nueva Chicago

“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Maximiliano Ojeda recited it perfectly.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

Walter Portillo says Nueva Chicago 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.

Player ratings5 Feb 2029

Matías Bergara was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Tempers go at Nueva Chicago

Alan Ruiz 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.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Graduation day at Nueva Chicago

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

The manager makes an example of Iván Antunes

“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.

Market5 Feb 2029

One of our own: Facundo Paz joins the Nueva Chicago first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Facundo Paz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief