The Nueva Chicago Sentinel
Match16 Sep 2028
Nueva Chicago strike at the death to beat Estudiantes
There were 89 minutes on the clock and Estudiantes had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Nueva Chicago did not stop to explain themselves.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
A debut to forget for Liam Herrera — 5.76
Every first appearance is one of two stories, and this was the harder one: 5.76, and a long walk to the tunnel. The second appearance is the one that decides what the first one meant.
Match16 Sep 2028
Nobody wants to play Nueva Chicago right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A falling-out at Nueva Chicago
Evelio Cardozo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Matías Bergara
13 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match16 Sep 2028
Matías Bergara sends Nueva Chicago past Estudiantes
It finished 2‑1, and it was Matías Bergara’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Nueva Chicago.
The terraces18 Sep 2028
One of their own: Jenluis Pérez
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match16 Sep 2028
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Nueva Chicago. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Words at Nueva Chicago training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dylan Gissi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Dylan Gissi
- Player ratings Matías Bergara takes the honours
- Squad Enriko Willi Vilisoo wants to go home