Daniel Vidal

Central Defender - Chaco For Ever
24 Jun 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Daniel Vidal

87 Edition

The Chaco For Ever Sentinel

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Fernando Benítez damages knee ligaments — 58 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 58 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.

Market

Joaquín Jara 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 Chaco For Ever can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Mathías Silvera frozen out at Chaco For Ever

This is not rotation. Mathías Silvera has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Chaco For Ever is pretending otherwise.

Market

Joaquín Jara has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chaco For Ever they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at Chaco For Ever

David Valdez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Ezequiel Pacheco for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Chaco For Ever will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Chaco For Ever

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Chaco For Ever

Something was said to Gonzalo Melgarejo and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Market

Brian Guerra linked with a move away

The name of Brian Guerra keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Chaco For Ever say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
80 Edition

The Chaco For Ever Sentinel

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

38 days out for Agustín Zabaleta after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Chaco For Ever will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Chaco For Ever

David Valdez 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Chaco For Ever

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gonzalo Melgarejo

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Patrón steps up from the Chaco For Ever academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrón 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.

Market

Chaco For Ever promote Daniel Vidal from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Vidal 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.

Market

Hernán Godoy steps up from the Chaco For Ever academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hernán Godoy 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.

Market

One of our own: Federico Costa joins the Chaco For Ever first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Federico Costa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

A bad afternoon for Chaco For Ever against Deportivo Armenio

0‑1 to Deportivo Armenio, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief