The Maipú Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Maipú
Matías Viguet 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Lisandro Cabrera goes
Sheffield paid $660.0K and Maipú took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match8 Aug 2026
Nicolás Heiz the difference as Maipú beat Gimnasia y Tiro
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nicolás Heiz. 3‑2 against Gimnasia y Tiro, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Enzo Pérez 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nahuel Galardi 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Diego Gaitán stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Diego Gaitán and Maipú agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Nicolás Heiz at his very best
Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Maipú.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Matías Viguet in the eights
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Matías Viguet's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
- Market Maipú buy the years ahead of Benjamín Silva
- Market Maipú sign Daniel Pérez, one for the future
- Player ratings Marcelo Eggel runs at them all day