The Junior Chronicle
Squad24 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yimmi Chará
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Junior lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Jan 2028
Guillermo Paiva puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Junior, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Jan 2028
The wait goes on for Junior
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad24 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Junior
Luis Muriel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market24 Jan 2028
Jannenson Sarmiento 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 Junior can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
Graduation day at Junior
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.
Match22 Jan 2028
A bad afternoon for Junior against Aguilas Doradas
1‑2 to Aguilas Doradas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market24 Jan 2028
Junior promote Luis Herrera from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Herrera 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.
Market24 Jan 2028
Fernando Cardona steps up from the Junior academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fernando Cardona 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
- Squad Jhon Navia stays put
- Boardroom Junior let a promise lapse
- Boardroom Doors closed at Junior