Caco

Right Midfielder - Maipú
6 May 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Caco

135 Edition

The Maipú Sentinel

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Luciano Arnijas frozen out at Maipú

This is not rotation. Luciano Arnijas has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Maipú is pretending otherwise.

Match

5 matches without a win for Maipú

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Maipú are no longer polite ones.

Market

Matías Viguet has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Maipú can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Maipú

Diego Gaitán 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.

Squad

Nicolás Fernández 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.

Squad

Diego Gaitán makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Match

Maipú rescue it on 88 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. Ferro Carril Oeste had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Lucas Más

“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.

Squad

Caco signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Caco commits to Maipú for another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
132 Edition

The Maipú Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Matías Viguet frozen out at Maipú

This is not rotation. Matías Viguet has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Maipú is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Maipú

Gastón Mansilla 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Maipú

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Maipú

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Fernández was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Racing Club tell Maipú: Nicolás Monges is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Tomás García steps up from the Maipú academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tomás García 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: Caco joins the Maipú first team

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

Market

One of our own: Carlos Alberto Pérez joins the Maipú first team

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

Market

One of our own: Agustín Correa joins the Maipú first team

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

In brief