The Chacarita Juniors Post
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Maximiliano Meléndez scores twice — 8.67
Two goals and a mark of 8.67 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market7 Feb 2028
Julián Domke 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 Chacarita Juniors can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Chacarita Juniors tie Raúl Ojeda down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Chacarita Juniors
Juan Ignacio Barbieri 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Chacarita Juniors
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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Chacarita Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Calderara 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Juan Ignacio Barbieri
“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.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Nobody could get near Mario Sanabria
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Feb 2028
Mario Luna steps up from the Chacarita Juniors academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mario Luna 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.
In brief
- Market Benjamín Paz steps up from the Chacarita Juniors academy
- Market Sebastián Russo steps up from the Chacarita Juniors academy
- Match Chacarita Juniors share the spoils with Defensores