Marked for Benjamín Martínez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Benjamín Martínez damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Huachipato, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Phillipe Gabriel is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Benjamín Martínez
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huachipato lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ezequiel Cañete 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Sebastián Mella is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Santiago Silva's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market21 Dec 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Huachipato, another week without a signature from Fernando Ceará.
Market21 Dec 2026
Huachipato have made Nelson Guaiquil available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Benjamín Martínez damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Carlos Herrera: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Huachipato have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huachipato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Huachipato training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristián Toro 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Benjamín Mellado has his answer from Huachipato; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market14 Dec 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Benjamín Martínez
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huachipato lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ezequiel Cañete 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Huachipato training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Vargas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Benjamín Martínez damages knee ligaments — 46 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 46 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huachipato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Benjamín Martínez
54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huachipato lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ezequiel Cañete 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Huachipato training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Benjamín Martínez damages knee ligaments — 62 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 62 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huachipato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Nicolás Vargas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Benjamín Martínez damages knee ligaments — 71 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 71 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ezequiel Cañete 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Santiago Silva's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Benjamín Martínez
79 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huachipato lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huachipato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Benjamín Martínez
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huachipato lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ezequiel Cañete 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Huachipato training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Benjamín Martínez
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huachipato lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huachipato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Herrera, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Huachipato training over how hard people work