The Maipú Sentinel
Market17 Jul 2028
Diego Gaitán 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 Maipú can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Maipú
Lisandro Cabrera 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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at Maipú training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Fernández 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
Juan Martín Silva steps up from the Maipú academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Martín Silva 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
One of our own: Felipe Bianchi joins the Maipú first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felipe Bianchi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Jul 2028
Maipú promote Daniel Alonso from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Alonso 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.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Diego Gaitán runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Micheal Adenodi dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad17 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Luciano Ortega
“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.
In brief
- Match Maipú share the spoils with Atlanta
- Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Maipú
- Player ratings Matías Viguet ran the game