The Audax Italiano Chronicle
Match22 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Audax Italiano
4‑3 against Union La Calera, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Damián Pizarro scores twice — 8.69
Two goals and a mark of 8.69 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Both of them Paolo Guajardo's — 8.38
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.38, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad24 Aug 2026
7 saves: Tomás Ahumada was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Michael Vadulli beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match22 Aug 2026
Damián Pizarro among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Damián Pizarro on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Audax Italiano and Union La Calera.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Federico Mateos 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Audax Italiano
Oliver Rojas 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Diego Coelho at his very best
Marked 8.41. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Audax Italiano.
In brief
- The dugout A satisfied Luis Aranguiz
- The dugout No hiding place for Daniel Piña
- The dugout No place in the plan for Rodrigo Cabral