The Junior Chronicle
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Yimmi Chará out for 90 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.
Match27 Nov 2026
A European night to remember for Junior
1‑1 against Portuguesa, 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Leyvin Balanta 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 Junior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market30 Nov 2026
Jermein Peña has his eye on Europe
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Junior
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Muriel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Jannenson Sarmiento
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jean Carlos Pestaña reaches 200 appearances
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Guillermo Paiva was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.06. 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Junior keep their word to Yimmi Chará
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
In brief
- The dugout The team sheet said everything about Teo Gutiérrez
- The dugout Jesús Rivas gets it from the manager
- The dugout When it matters, Francisco Fydriszewski plays