The Junior Chronicle
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jeffersson Martínez
83 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Yimmi Chará breaks a bone — 26 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Mauro Silveira keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Junior may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mauro Silveira keeps Junior in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market25 Jan 2027
Jermein Peña 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 The request is on a desk at Junior, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Junior
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Déiber Caicedo was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market25 Jan 2027
Brian Sanchez steps up from the Junior academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Brian Sanchez 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes of Fabián Ángel at his very best
Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Junior.
In brief
- Match Junior refuse to lose to La Equidad
- The dugout No hiding place for Daniel Rivera
- Match Déiber Caicedo rescues a point for Junior