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Squad30 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Carlos Fernández damages knee ligaments — 53 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 53 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Christian Ortiz 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.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Carlos Fernández damages knee ligaments — 61 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 61 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Angelo Campos 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
Squad16 Nov 2026
86 days out for Junior Aguirre after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Juan Aurich will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Fernández
68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Juan Aurich lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Angelo Campos 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.
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Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Junior Aguirre out for 93 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Juan Aurich will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
75 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juan Aurich lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Angelo Campos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
83 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juan Aurich lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Christian Ortiz 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Pablo Ceppelini 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yorkman Tello, and the manager let it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Francesco Lara has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Juan Aurich will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
90 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juan Aurich lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Junior Aguirre: that is not what I was promised
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Christian Ortiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Carlos Fernández damages knee ligaments — 98 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 98 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Juan Morales
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Juan Aurich will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juan Aurich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Carlos Fernández damages knee ligaments — 106 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 106 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Christian Ortiz 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Juan Aurich training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Ceppelini 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jose Caceda has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christian Tapia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giacomo Gambetta, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Fernández
115 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Juan Aurich lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juan Aurich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Pablo Ceppelini 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
Squad28 Sep 2026
Carlos Fernández damages knee ligaments — 122 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 122 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Angelo Campos 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Daniel Tarazona is on it.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Carlos Fernández damages knee ligaments — 130 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 130 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Angelo Campos 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Juan Aurich training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Ceppelini 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.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
138 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juan Aurich lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Christian Ortiz 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Pablo Ceppelini 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christian Benavente is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aldo Santamaria is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Christian Ortiz 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Saúl Reyes moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Juan Aurich than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Christian Ortiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Ceppelini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Daniel Tarazona is on it.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Alianza Lima ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
8 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Juan Aurich are taken apart by Alianza Lima — and the town wants answers
It finished 1-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juan Aurich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Ceppelini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Angelo Campos, and the manager let it.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Christian Ortiz dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Cienciano are out and Juan Aurich go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match12 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Cienciano spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A goal and an assist for Francesco Lara — 7.83
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.83 beside his name.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Angelo Campos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Daniel Tarazona at his very best
Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Juan Aurich.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Juan Aurich, another week without a signature from Pablo Ceppelini.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Juan Aurich are still strangers to each other
18 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Paolo Flores could afford to be generous.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
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
Squad10 Aug 2026
Angelo Campos 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Carlo Urquiaga
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Juan Aurich will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pablo Ceppelini 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Christian Valera has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Edison Ruidiaz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jefferson Polo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Squad3 Aug 2026
Carlo Urquiaga gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Carlo Urquiaga has just signed for Juan Aurich, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Angelo Campos commits to Juan Aurich for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juan Aurich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
No place for Yorkman Tello in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Juan Aurich are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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
There is a particular relief in a club addressing the thing its own crowd has been shouting about. Carlo Urquiaga arrives for exactly that job, and now he has to do it.