The Unión San Felipe Herald
Squad17 Aug 2026
Javier Balbuena keeps Unión San Felipe in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match15 Aug 2026
The small margins put Unión San Felipe out
Out, 0‑3 to Cobreloa, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Cobreloa leaves Unión San Felipe explaining themselves
0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Unión San Felipe
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Unión San Felipe are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Unión San Felipe
Celso Castillo 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Norberto Palmieri 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Unión San Felipe cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Facundo Melivilo did the work nobody counts — 6.47
11 combined actions and 6.47. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Facundo Melivilo is a square peg at Unión San Felipe
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody left the Unión San Felipe dressing room in a hurry
- Market Unión San Felipe and Sebastián Cabrera are talking past each other
- The dugout The view from the dugout