Benjamín Morales

Goalkeeper - Colo-Colo
29 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Benjamín Morales

11 Edition

The Colo-Colo Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Colo-Colo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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

Back issues
10 Edition

The Colo-Colo Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jeyson Rojas is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colo-Colo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Colo-Colo

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

Squad

Words at Colo-Colo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Chaves 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.

Squad

Lucas Soto is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Lucas Soto has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout

When it matters, Matías Fernández plays

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.

Loan watch

Brayan Cortés’s loan is measured in nothing happening

4 clean sheets from 8 appearances at Argentinos Juniors. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.

The dugout

The manager makes Jonathan Villagra a promise

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

Market

The shop window has Lucas Soto in it

Colo-Colo have let the market know Lucas Soto can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

Benjamín Morales 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 Benjamín Morales trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief