Marked for Johan Caicedo
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match9 Sep 2026
The small margins put San Luis out
Out, 0‑2 to Audax Italiano, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match9 Sep 2026
No end in sight to San Luis's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Luis has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johan Caicedo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match9 Sep 2026
San Luis leaking at the back
4 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at San Luis
Gonzalo Bustos 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gonzalo Beausejour has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Diaz has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The game went through Diego González — 6.71
Marked 6.71 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián Parada, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Crisis
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.80, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for San Luis
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around San Luis are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Facundo Juárez 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 Sep 2026
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johan Caicedo 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Universidad Catolica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guillermo Avello, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Ivan Davila left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for San Luis
A 0‑0 win over Universidad de Chile, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Johan Caicedo pops up at the right end — 7.86
7.86, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at San Luis
Sergio Vergara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Johan Caicedo 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
A goal on 86 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A penalty is the one moment in football with nowhere to hide, and he did not score it. The walk back was long and the week will be longer.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Johan Caicedo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Santiago Wanderers, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
San Luis march on in the cup
Colo-Colo are out and San Luis go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Johan Caicedo delivers — 7.89
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Johan Caicedo scored, was marked 7.89, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at San Luis
Facundo Juárez 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johan Caicedo 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for San Luis, 2‑1 the final word against Palestino in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
San Luis's travelling support get something back at Colo-Colo
They paid twice — for the ticket and for the journey — and got a 1-0 win for it. Away support is the truest kind precisely because nothing about it is convenient.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.93, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Felipe Mora and San Luis agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 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 San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Johan Caicedo 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.96, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at San Luis
14 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Ivan Davila chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Looking ahead3 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Iquique in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.