The Union La Calera Gazette
Boardroom4 Jun 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Union La Calera
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market4 Jun 2029
Nailson asks to leave Union La Calera
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Union La Calera
Nicolás Avellaneda 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.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Words at Union La Calera training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Rodríguez 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 ratings4 Jun 2029
A masterclass from Carlo Villanueva
Marked 8.07 — 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.
Squad4 Jun 2029
No hiding place for Mauricio Cuero
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mauricio Cuero, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Jun 2029
A place in the month's best eleven for Johan De Castro
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Johan De Castro has come out of that comparison in the side, and Union La Calera have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match2 Jun 2029
Union La Calera share the spoils with Colo-Colo
A 1‑1 draw with Colo-Colo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Boardroom4 Jun 2029
$2.4M taken back off the Union La Calera table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
In brief
- Market No place for Cristóbal López in the plan
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Kevin Méndez
- Player ratings Javier Saldías could not find anything