Nicolás Rivera

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Process

Marked for Nicolás Rivera

22 Edition

The San Marcos de Arica Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Martín Dedes

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Marcos de Arica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Augusto Barrios hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Marcos de Arica can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

The step up is real for D'Hidier Pereira

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Tempers go at San Marcos de Arica

Camilo Melivilú 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.

Squad

Words at San Marcos de Arica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonzalo Reyes 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Guillermo Varela

San Marcos de Arica asked and Flamengo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Valentín Dávila is in the works

San Marcos de Arica have made the call to Talleres. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

Resistencia expected to open talks for Vicente Reyes

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. San Marcos de Arica will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

The dugout

Camilo Melivilú knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Camilo Melivilú trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The San Marcos de Arica Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at San Marcos de Arica

Andrés Barboza and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at San Marcos de Arica

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álvaro Cazula was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Camilo Melivilú knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Camilo Melivilú trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Korben Rojas gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

Talks stall between San Marcos de Arica and Nicolás Rivera

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

The manager makes Nicolás Orrego a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at San Marcos de Arica. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

9 Edition

The San Marcos de Arica Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bairon Monroy puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at San Marcos de Arica, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Camilo Melivilú 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 San Marcos de Arica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at San Marcos de Arica

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Agustín Maidana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

16 new faces, and San Marcos de Arica are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nicolás Rivera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Rivera, and the manager let it.

Market

San Marcos de Arica bring in an old head

Nicolás Millán is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief