The Los Halcones Sentinel
Squad14 Feb 2028
The knee: Joaquín Pombo out for 93 days
93 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Los Halcones lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Lucas Scarlatto out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Los Halcones will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Axel López keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Los Halcones may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market14 Feb 2028
Kevin Ferraz asks to leave Los Halcones
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match12 Feb 2028
The wait goes on for Los Halcones
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market14 Feb 2028
Sergio Silva comes home
The shirt still fits. Sergio Silva is back at Los Halcones, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Los Halcones
Joaquín Gómez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Los Halcones
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
The numbers do not look good at Los Halcones
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
In brief
- Boardroom Jacinto Andrada will join Los Halcones for nothing
- Squad Martín Ortíz falls out with a teammate over standards
- Player ratings Axel López runs at them all day