The Maipú Sentinel
Squad7 Feb 2028
The knee: Nicolás Delmonte out for 170 days
170 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Maipú lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Feb 2028
Juan Cruz Arno 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 The request is on a desk at Maipú, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Luciano Ortega keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Maipú may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market7 Feb 2028
Oscar Perez is a Maipú player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Santiago Paulini frozen out at Maipú
This is not rotation. Santiago Paulini has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Maipú is pretending otherwise.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Maipú
3 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Maipú
Nicolás Heiz 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.
Match5 Feb 2028
Maipú find a way past Quilmes
Quilmes made Maipú work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces7 Feb 2028
The crowd has taken to Juan Cruz Arno
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Federico Suárez joins the Maipú first team
- Market One of our own: Enano joins the Maipú first team
- Squad Maipú count the cost of losing Daniel Ramírez