From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
“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.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Colo-Colo, and 4 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Fernando De Paul joins up with his country. Colo-Colo lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Steady
Squad12 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“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.
Match10 Jul 2027
A 2-0 win over San Marcos de Arica, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leandro Hernández commits to Colo-Colo for another 4 years.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Joaquín Sosa 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Colo-Colo will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done: Andrey Domotsev joins from Mashuk in a deal worth $1.1M. Now comes the harder part.
Market21 Dec 2026
San Luis come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Colo-Colo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Javier Correa knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Colo-Colo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Claudio Aquino has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Colo-Colo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Matías Fernández plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Colo-Colo will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.