The Nueva Chicago Sentinel
Squad7 Feb 2028
Hernán Campos damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Feb 2028
Matías Vera puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nueva Chicago, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Feb 2028
Jenluis Pérez says no to Colón
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Jenluis Pérez had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Elías Machuca keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nueva Chicago may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Nueva Chicago tie Juan Miranda down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Evelio Cardozo 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 Nueva Chicago this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Nueva Chicago
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
Words at Nueva Chicago training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Ruiz 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.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
No hiding place for Iván Antunes
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iván Antunes, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Nueva Chicago promote Luis Alberto Peralta from within
- Market Camello steps up from the Nueva Chicago academy
- Squad 25 clean sheets for Luciano Jachfe