The Deportes Santa Cruz Sentinel
Match24 Jul 2027
Deportes Santa Cruz tear Deportes Temuco apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Deportes Temuco, and it could have been more.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Valentino Albornoz scores twice — 8.48
Two goals and a mark of 8.48 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
Window shuts: 4 in, 6 out at Deportes Santa Cruz
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Deportes Santa Cruz
Mathias Pinto 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A move Rodrigo Roa would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Rodrigo Roa is living that version at Deportes Santa Cruz, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Jeremías Vallejos 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 ratings26 Jul 2027
Diego Urzúa in the eights
A performance of 8.29 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
127% of the income goes out in wages at Deportes Santa Cruz
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
One of those days for Hardy Cavero
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- The dugout Thiago Ocampo gets it from the manager
- Transfer targets Deportes Santa Cruz ask about Yastin Cuevas
- The dugout No place for Ignacio Caroca on the big day