The San Marcos de Arica Gazette
Squad30 Jul 2029
Yerko Águila says San Marcos de Arica went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market30 Jul 2029
Nicolás Rivera 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 The request is on a desk at San Marcos de Arica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market30 Jul 2029
Only the photograph left for Martín Quezada
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martín Quezada will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Marcos de Arica the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Nobody could get near Bairon Monroy
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Álvaro Cazula 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Cristóbal Guerra 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.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for San Marcos de Arica against Universidad de Chile
- Squad The manager makes an example of Álvaro Cazula
- Market The market said no: Martín Quezada stays put