Simón Pinto

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Marked for Simón Pinto

9 Edition

The Palestino Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

Julián Fernández in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Palestino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Joe Abrigo 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Sebastián Pérez'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.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Palestino Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match19 Aug 2026

The small margins put Palestino out

Out, 0‑2 to Huachipato, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Jonathan Benítez yet — 8.70

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.70 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Palestino

Julián Fernández 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Jonathan Benítez’s goal not enough for Palestino

Jonathan Benítez scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Cobresal, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Dilan Zúñiga

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

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Palestino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joe Abrigo 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Joe Abrigo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Simón Pinto signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simón Pinto and Palestino agree another 5 years.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Julián Fernández never got going

4.17 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

3 Edition

The Palestino Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match12 Aug 2026

Cup progress for Palestino

A 1‑0 win over Santiago Wanderers, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A debut Simón Pinto will not forget — 7.29

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.29 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Julián Fernández in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Palestino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Esteban Paredes

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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of César Munder at his very best

Marked 8.70. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Palestino.

Match15 Aug 2026

César Munder sends Palestino past San Luis

It finished 1‑0, and it was César Munder’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Palestino.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Joe Abrigo 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Esteban Paredes

Marked 8.25 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Antonio Ceza was immovable

17 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief