The Sol de America Sentinel
Squad1 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Duarte
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sol de America lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Aquilino Giménez out for 63 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sol de America will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Sol de America
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brahian Fernández was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Sol de America
Víctor Villasanti 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Manuel Peralta Salinas
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Manuel Peralta Salinas, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
When it matters, Pablo Fernández plays
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.
In brief
- Looking ahead Pablo Fernández faces his old club
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Sol de America
- The dugout The manager comes out for Joel Jiménez