The Colo-Colo Chronicle
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Fernando De Paul says Colo-Colo went back on their word
“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.
Match23 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Colo-Colo
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match23 Oct 2026
A European lesson for Colo-Colo
2‑4 against Flamengo. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and Maximiliano Romero takes the afternoon — 8.26
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Maximiliano Romero provided it, and the 8.26 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Fernando De Paul stands alone
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Claudio Aquino 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 Colo-Colo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Oct 2026
Maximiliano Romero among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Maximiliano Romero on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Colo-Colo and Flamengo.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Iván Román
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Colo-Colo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arturo Vidal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout No place for Juan Pulgar on the big day
- The dugout Luis Fernandez faces the questions
- Market The Tomás Alarcón question follows Colo-Colo around