The Sportivo Trinidense Sentinel
Squad11 Jan 2027
Blas Valenzuela damages knee ligaments — 127 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 127 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
89 days out for David Villalba after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sportivo Trinidense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Too dear: Sportivo Trinidense walk away from Erik López
$1.4M was the most the club would pay and Olimpia were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Sportivo Trinidense
Néstor Camacho 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Alexis Insfrán arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Alexis Insfrán has, at Sportivo Trinidense, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Door shut on Tomás Pérez
Sportivo Trinidense asked and Racing Club said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Oscar Giménez 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Gustavo Sanabria steps up from the Sportivo Trinidense academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gustavo Sanabria 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Pablo Lopez steps up from the Sportivo Trinidense academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pablo Lopez 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 One of our own: Diego Acosta joins the Sportivo Trinidense first team
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Maximiliano Centurión's mistake
- The dugout Blas Valenzuela asks for a word with the manager