The Colo-Colo Chronicle
Market12 Oct 2026
Leandro Hernández 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 The request is on a desk at Colo-Colo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tomás Alarcón 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 Colo-Colo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Leandro Hernández at Colo-Colo
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Leandro Hernández is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Arturo Vidal 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Colo-Colo
20 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Claudio Aquino has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Colo-Colo 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.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Lucas Rodríguez
- The dugout Cristián Zavala knocks on the manager's door
- Market The shop window has Benjamín Morales in it
- The dugout Matías Fernández keeps his manager's vote