The Maipú Sentinel
Squad8 Feb 2027
9 saves: Nahuel Galardi was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Aron Agüero: 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.” Maipú have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Maipú told to sell
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Match6 Feb 2027
Whatever happens, Maipú do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Fausto Montero signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fausto Montero commits to Maipú for another 2 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Gastón Mansilla 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 Maipú this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Maipú
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Matías Viguet 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
One of our own: Pipe joins the Maipú first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pipe is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Mateo Ortale
- Market Maipú and Juan Pablo De la Reta are talking past each other
- Player ratings Matías Viguet was unplayable