The Defensa y Justicia Post
Market7 Feb 2028
Agustín Hausch asks to leave Defensa y Justicia
“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.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Mauro Peinipil: 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.” Defensa y Justicia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market7 Feb 2028
Ezequiel Cannavo wants more than Defensa y Justicia are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Defensa y Justicia
Juan Manuel Gutiérrez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Defensa y Justicia
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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Nazareno Funez 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.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Ezequiel Cannavo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Feb 2028
Defensa y Justicia promote Fernando Herrera from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fernando Herrera 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Patrón steps up from the Defensa y Justicia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrón 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.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Defensa y Justicia against Newell's Old Boys
- Player ratings Lucas González was unplayable
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Ezequiel Cannavo's mistake