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15 Edition

The Iquique Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad9 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Isaac Díaz

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

Squad9 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Iquique

Agustín Venezia 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

Jonatan Blanco signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonatan Blanco commits to Iquique for another 1 years.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Iquique

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Ayala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Dylan Arias has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Iquique 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.

Market9 Nov 2026

The Zacarías López question follows Iquique around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Zacarías López’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

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14 Edition

The Iquique Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad2 Nov 2026

The knee: Isaac Díaz out for 24 days

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

Market2 Nov 2026

Diego Rojas 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 The request is on a desk at Iquique, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Iquique

Agustín Venezia 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Jonatan Blanco signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonatan Blanco and Iquique agree another 1 years.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Nicolás Ayala 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.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Nicolás Ayala 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.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

When it matters, Isaac Díaz 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.

Market2 Nov 2026

Iquique bring in an old head

Jonatan Blanco is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market2 Nov 2026

The Agustín Venezia question follows Iquique around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Agustín Venezia’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

6 Edition

The Iquique Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Iquique

Agustín Venezia 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Iquique

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Orellana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Nicolás Ayala

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Ayala, and the manager let it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Franco Ledesma slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Franco Ledesma is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad7 Sep 2026

15 new faces, and Iquique 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 dugout7 Sep 2026

When it matters, Isaac Díaz 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.

Looking ahead7 Sep 2026

A reunion for Zacarías López

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against San Marcos de Arica in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market7 Sep 2026

The Agustín Venezia question follows Iquique around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Agustín Venezia’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

The manager makes César González a promise

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

In brief