The Chaco For Ever Sentinel
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Bahiano García: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chaco For Ever have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Feb 2027
David Valdez in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chaco For Ever this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Chaco For Ever
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Brian Guerra falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market8 Feb 2027
Luis Alberto Escobar steps up from the Chaco For Ever academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Alberto Escobar 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Chaco For Ever promote Pipe from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pipe 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Late, late show earns Chaco For Ever a point
Minute 89, against Gimnasia y Esgrima, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Andres Lioi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match6 Feb 2027
Leandro Espejo rescues a point for Chaco For Ever
It needed Leandro Espejo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Gimnasia y Esgrima, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- The dugout Pedro Colombo: “We have to be better”
- Boardroom Chaco For Ever say no to the training-ground money
- Player ratings Leandro Espejo runs at them all day