The Sol de America Sentinel
Squad8 Feb 2027
Enzo Rotela damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
81 days out for Julio Rivarola after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sol de America will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Fernando Leguizamón keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sol de America may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Sol de America
5 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Sol de America
Gustavo Aguilar 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Sol de America
2 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Carlos Lopez joins the Sol de America first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Carlos Lopez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Sol de America promote Angel Gamarra from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Angel Gamarra 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Sol de America count the cost of losing Rodrigo Duarte
21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Player ratings Gustavo Aguilar beats them one at a time
- Loan watch Kevin Benites has seen enough of Rubio Nu
- The dugout Antonio Enciso: “We have to be better”