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Crisis
Squad11 Oct 2027
The medical room confirms 98 days on the sidelines for Jean Pierre Fuentes, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad11 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Ramón Rengifo
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Leonardo Carrillo has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Crisis
Squad9 Aug 2027
Matías Gallo 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Leonardo Carrillo plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Jul 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Juan Aurich, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Leonardo Carrillo plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Upbeat
Squad31 May 2027
76 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad31 May 2027
Matías Gallo left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Matías Gallo will call it something else in private.
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Steady
Squad24 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Bryan Canela
“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.
Match22 May 2027
A 1-1 draw with Deportivo Municipal leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad24 May 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Juan Aurich have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
Squad3 May 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Juan Aurich have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad3 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match1 May 2027
Universitario left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Match3 Mar 2027
A 1-0 win over UTC, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joao Villamarín commits to Juan Aurich for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Gustavo Torres
“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.
Match6 Mar 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Every debut is a small story about the future: Fabrizzio Franco, 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Match27 Feb 2027
5 matches without a win for Juan Aurich
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Juan Aurich are no longer polite ones.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Matías Gallo 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Juan Aurich, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Leonardo Carrillo and Juan Aurich agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
Gianfranco Castellanos is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.