Luis Sánchez

Right Midfielder - Chiapas
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Luis Sánchez

19 Edition

The Chiapas Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Gullit Peña out for 40 days

40 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Chiapas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Bruno Centeno keeps Chiapas in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Chiapas sink to position 17

6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

The dugout

Luis Sánchez says Chiapas 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Chiapas

Jorge Torres Nilo 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.

Match

Chiapas get the job done against Pumas UNAM

A 2‑1 win over Pumas UNAM, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Leandro Mamut

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

The drought breaks for Chiapas

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Pumas UNAM were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

The dugout

Manuel Madrid 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.

In brief

  • Squad Camilo Agualimpia falls out with a teammate over standards
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Leandro Mamut knocks on the manager’s door
Back issues
9 Edition

The Chiapas Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Gullit Peña damages knee ligaments — 113 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

34 days out for Antonio Portales after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Chiapas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

The wait goes on for Chiapas

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Chiapas taken apart

0‑5 to Club America, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Bruno Centeno stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

Chiapas leaking at the back

10 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match

The goals have deserted Chiapas

6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Chiapas can tell you which week it ends in.

The dugout

Luis Sánchez says Chiapas 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Chiapas

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

In brief

8 Edition

The Chiapas Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gullit Peña

121 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chiapas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Antonio Portales breaks a bone — 43 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

No end in sight to Chiapas's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chiapas has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Chiapas

9 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match

5 matches without a goal for Chiapas

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Words exchanged at Chiapas

Marco Antonio Bueno 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Chiapas against Morelia

0‑2 to Morelia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

21 new faces, and Chiapas 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

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Nestor Herrera to a room that had heard them before.

In brief