The Junior Chronicle
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Francisco Fydriszewski takes the afternoon — 8.59
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Francisco Fydriszewski provided it, and the 8.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market3 Aug 2026
Mauro Silveira wants European nights
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Francisco Fydriszewski stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Francisco Fydriszewski and Junior agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Junior
Jean Carlos Pestaña and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Luis Muriel 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Junior see off America de Cali
Three points for Junior, 3‑1 the final word against America de Cali in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Déiber Caicedo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Junior has picked up the phone to Francisco Fydriszewski
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Junior are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Market Still no ink between Junior and Teo Gutiérrez
- The dugout Mauro Silveira asks for a word with the manager