Marked for Devis Vásquez
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match2 Nov 2032
Whatever happens, Junior do not lose
29 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.
Match2 Nov 2032
Junior do the business in Europe
2‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Junior came through the finding-out well against Cerro Porteno.
Market8 Nov 2032
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Junior can pretend not to have heard.
Market8 Nov 2032
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Junior they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Nov 2032
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías Moreno and Junior agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Nov 2032
A falling-out at Junior
Matías Moreno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Nov 2032
A move Agustín Rossi would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Agustín Rossi is living that version at Junior, and it tends to show in the first month.
The dugout8 Nov 2032
The manager makes an example of Marcos Senesi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad8 Nov 2032
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Junior are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match25 Sep 2032
22 unbeaten for Junior
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 22 matches without defeat is a foundation Junior did not have in the autumn.
Match25 Sep 2032
Junior make home a hard place to visit
23 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad27 Sep 2032
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Devis Vásquez: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match22 Sep 2032
Junior through in the cup
A 2‑2 win over America de Cali, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market27 Sep 2032
“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.
Squad27 Sep 2032
21 goals and a season average of 7.32 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market27 Sep 2032
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Junior is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market27 Sep 2032
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Junior can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad27 Sep 2032
Tempers go at Junior
Matías Moreno was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Steady
Match17 Apr 2032
Whatever happens, Junior do not lose
13 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.
Market19 Apr 2032
“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 Junior, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Apr 2032
The view from the top for Junior
30 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market19 Apr 2032
Only the photograph left for Keny Arroyo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Keny Arroyo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Junior the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Apr 2032
Words exchanged at Junior
Matías Moreno and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Apr 2032
“The easiest signature of my career.” Benjamín González and Junior agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout19 Apr 2032
“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.
Market19 Apr 2032
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad19 Apr 2032
Tiago Serrago 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.
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Steady
Market2 Feb 2032
Jimer Fory hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Junior can pretend not to have heard.
Market2 Feb 2032
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Junior heard it as anything else.
Market2 Feb 2032
Only the photograph left for Vicente Reyes
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vicente Reyes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Junior the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market2 Feb 2032
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Santiago Simón wants continental football; whether Junior can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad2 Feb 2032
A falling-out at Junior
Leonardo Realpe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match31 Jan 2032
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yerson Mosquera. 2‑0 against Leones, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings2 Feb 2032
Carlos Alberto Campos was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.29. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings2 Feb 2032
A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad2 Feb 2032
Too much change too quickly at Junior
17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Uneasy
Market29 Dec 2031
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Junior have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market29 Dec 2031
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Junior can pretend not to have heard.
Market29 Dec 2031
Junior say no — this time
The offer from Chapecoense for Kevyn Vinícius was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets29 Dec 2031
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Fluminense is saying, and nobody at Junior is enjoying the guessing.
Squad29 Dec 2031
A falling-out at Junior
Matías Moreno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Dec 2031
Words at Junior training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tiago Serrago 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.
Transfer targets29 Dec 2031
Junior asked and Fluminense said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad29 Dec 2031
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Uneasy
Boardroom22 Dec 2031
Silverware for Junior
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Match22 Dec 2031
The view from the top for Junior
84 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market22 Dec 2031
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bogota waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Junior is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market22 Dec 2031
Business is business: Kerwin Vargas goes
Racing Club paid $12.6M and Junior took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad22 Dec 2031
Matías Moreno arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Matías Moreno has, at Junior, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad22 Dec 2031
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Junior had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Market22 Dec 2031
“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.
Market22 Dec 2031
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Junior is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Dec 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Junior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Match25 Nov 2031
Junior make home a hard place to visit
20 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match25 Nov 2031
A European lesson for Junior
1‑2 against Universitario. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Market1 Dec 2031
“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.
Market1 Dec 2031
Ángel Torres has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Junior they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Dec 2031
Tempers go at Junior
Marcos Senesi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad1 Dec 2031
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jewison Bennette has just signed for Junior, and for once the answer mattered.
Market1 Dec 2031
“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.
Squad1 Dec 2031
16 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad1 Dec 2031
A row about effort at Junior
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Silvetti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
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The dugout
Devis Vásquez gets it from the manager
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The dugout
The team sheet said everything about Simón García
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Steady
Match25 Oct 2031
Junior make home a hard place to visit
20 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match21 Oct 2031
Junior do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Junior came through the finding-out well against Cerro Porteno.
Match27 Oct 2031
Nobody above Junior
First, on 81 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Market27 Oct 2031
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Junior can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Oct 2031
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market27 Oct 2031
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Junior they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Oct 2031
16 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad27 Oct 2031
Tempers go at Junior
Yerry Murillo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings27 Oct 2031
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Match16 Sep 2031
A European night to remember for Junior
1‑0 against Universitario, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match20 Sep 2031
Nobody wins at Junior
16 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market22 Sep 2031
“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 dugout22 Sep 2031
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings22 Sep 2031
A defender's goal wins it for Junior — 7.56
1 for Ronaldo Pájaro, marked 7.56, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market22 Sep 2031
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gastón Hernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Junior the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market22 Sep 2031
“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.
Market22 Sep 2031
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Santiago Simón wants continental football; whether Junior can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad22 Sep 2031
Mateo Silvetti 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.
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Triumph
Market4 Aug 2031
“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.
Match2 Aug 2031
13 unbeaten for Junior
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Junior did not have in the autumn.
Match4 Aug 2031
61 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
The dugout4 Aug 2031
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match2 Aug 2031
Junior make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Market4 Aug 2031
The name of Nelson Deossa has come up in conversations Junior were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market4 Aug 2031
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Junior they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market4 Aug 2031
Junior say no — this time
The offer from Aguilas Doradas for Joaquín Bonnin was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad4 Aug 2031
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Devis Vásquez commits to Junior for another 2 years.
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Triumph
Match19 Jul 2031
Junior cannot stop winning
11 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match16 Jul 2031
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Fabián Ángel obliged against La Equidad. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Junior.
Match19 Jul 2031
3‑0, and Nelson Deossa took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Junior tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market21 Jul 2031
Marcos Senesi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Junior they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market21 Jul 2031
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Junior have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Jhonier Blanco gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jhonier Blanco has just signed for Junior, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Jul 2031
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market21 Jul 2031
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Junior can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Santa Fe have kept their man, and Junior go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
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Boardroom
Deadline passes with 4 signed and 4 gone
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Match
Junior make home a hard place to visit
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Transfer targets
Alfredo Romero is a medical away from Junior
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Triumph
Market30 Jun 2031
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Junior people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market30 Jun 2031
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Junior can pretend not to have heard.
Match28 Jun 2031
Junior cannot stop winning
7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Market30 Jun 2031
Only the photograph left for Luis Sequeira
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luis Sequeira will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Junior the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market30 Jun 2031
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad30 Jun 2031
Luis Quintero 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.
Transfer targets30 Jun 2031
Junior asked and Santa Fe said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match28 Jun 2031
Three points for Junior, 2‑0 the final word against Real Cartagena in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match28 Jun 2031
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Junior. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
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Steady
Squad12 May 2031
57 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Junior lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match7 May 2031
Junior march on in the cup
Valledupar are out and Junior go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad12 May 2031
A fracture rules Brian Santos out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Junior will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 May 2031
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Junior can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings12 May 2031
Up for the corner, and Mateo Tanlongo delivers — 7.91
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Mateo Tanlongo scored, was marked 7.91, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market12 May 2031
Luis Vivero has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Junior they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match10 May 2031
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Market12 May 2031
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Junior heard it as anything else.
Squad12 May 2031
Renan Lodi gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Renan Lodi has just signed for Junior, and for once the answer mattered.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Mar 2031
The words a physio says slowly. 103 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.
Market31 Mar 2031
“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 Junior, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Mar 2031
27 days out for Wilmar Cordoba after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Junior will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market31 Mar 2031
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Junior is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market31 Mar 2031
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad31 Mar 2031
Vicente Reyes gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Vicente Reyes has just signed for Junior, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad31 Mar 2031
Mateo Silvetti 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 dugout31 Mar 2031
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nelson Deossa, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Mar 2031
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Match4 Mar 2031
Kerwin Vargas had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Deportes Tolima were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market10 Mar 2031
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Junior can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market10 Mar 2031
Only the photograph left for Luis Sequeira
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luis Sequeira will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Junior the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Words exchanged at Junior
Pablo Maffeo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Luis Quintero 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 dugout10 Mar 2031
The manager makes an example of Devis Vásquez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Mar 2031
Junior may not be able to give Luka Romero what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Luka Romero wants continental football; whether Junior can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
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Triumph
Match25 Jan 2031
3‑0, and Mateo Silvetti took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Junior tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market27 Jan 2031
Jimer Fory hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Junior can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Jan 2031
A fracture rules Fernando Uribe out for 78 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Junior will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match25 Jan 2031
The run at home goes on for Junior
13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
The dugout27 Jan 2031
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Junior may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market27 Jan 2031
Ángel Torres has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Junior they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market27 Jan 2031
Luka Romero wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Junior hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market27 Jan 2031
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Junior can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Match25 Jan 2031
Junior make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Junior have 3 straight wins of it.
In brief
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Boardroom
10 academy graduates step up at Junior
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Squad
Pablo Maffeo in a row with a teammate
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Squad
A row about effort at Junior
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Upbeat
Squad13 Jan 2031
A fracture rules Fernando Uribe out for 95 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Junior will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market13 Jan 2031
“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 Junior, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market13 Jan 2031
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market13 Jan 2031
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market13 Jan 2031
Matías Pérez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Junior they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Jan 2031
Words exchanged at Junior
Pablo Maffeo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad13 Jan 2031
A row about effort at Junior
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yerry Murillo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout13 Jan 2031
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout13 Jan 2031
José Devecchi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.