The Maipú Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Maipú
Juan Pablo Gobetto 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Matías Viguet has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Maipú can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Maipú training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Heiz 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Arsenal take the points off Maipú
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market10 Aug 2026
Maipú promote Eduardo Varela from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eduardo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Cóndor joins the Maipú first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cóndor is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Benicio Rojas steps up from the Maipú academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benicio Rojas 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mateo Ortale out for 16 days
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Mateo Ortale, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Luciano Arnijas
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luciano Arnijas, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Agustín Ibáñez: “No excuses”
- Squad Franco Saccone wants to go home
- The dugout No place in the plan for Juan Pablo Gobetto