Marked for Nicolás Raggio
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 May 2029
No end in sight to Iquique's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Iquique has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout7 May 2029
Santiago Videla: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Iquique have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings7 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 May 2029
Words exchanged at Iquique
Jeisson Vargas and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 May 2029
A row about effort at Iquique
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedrão was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 May 2029
The manager makes an example of Álvaro Ramos
“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.
Squad7 May 2029
Steffan Pino slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Steffan Pino is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Player ratings7 May 2029
Marked 7.77. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad7 May 2029
Nicolás Raggio named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Nicolás Raggio is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Crisis
Match21 Apr 2029
Nowhere to hide for Iquique
0‑3 against Universidad de Concepcion, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match23 Apr 2029
Iquique sink to position 14
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market23 Apr 2029
Brayan Garrido has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Iquique they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Apr 2029
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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Vicente Concha 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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
A row about effort at Iquique
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álvaro Ramos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
“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.
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom23 Apr 2029
Doors closed at Iquique
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Crisis
The dugout9 Apr 2029
Lucas Marcotti: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Iquique have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Apr 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Steffan Pino commits to Iquique for another 2 years.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Pedrão 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.
Match7 Apr 2029
Union La Calera left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings9 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Pablo Maripan left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Nicolás Raggio 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.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
The manager makes an example of Ronald Alarcón
“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.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
Pedrão asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words exchanged at Iquique
Jeisson Vargas and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words at Iquique training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álvaro Ramos 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
The medical room confirms 45 days on the sidelines for Nicolás Raggio, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Jan 2029
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market15 Jan 2029
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
Ian Araneda is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market15 Jan 2029
6 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Iquique could get for him.
Market15 Jan 2029
The market said no: Diego Orellana stays put
Iquique opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Diego Orellana stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
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Uneasy
Market1 Jan 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Iquique is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Jan 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Iquique, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jan 2029
The deal that would have taken Lucas Marcotti to Union Espanola has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Iquique with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2029
Iquique have gone to Union La Calera with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad1 Jan 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iquique this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2029
The offer went to Colo-Colo this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2029
$290.0K was the most the club would pay and Everton de Viña del Mar were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2029
Iquique asked and Universidad Catolica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Brayan Garrido 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.
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Uneasy
Market4 Dec 2028
Iquique say no — this time
The offer from Universidad de Chile for Nicolás Juárez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market4 Dec 2028
Brayan Garrido has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Iquique they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market4 Dec 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iquique can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Álvaro Ramos and Iquique agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Words exchanged at Iquique
Nicolás Juárez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Cristopher Barrera 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.
Transfer targets4 Dec 2028
Iquique asked and Universidad Catolica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market4 Dec 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Óscar Vanegas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Iquique.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces27 Nov 2028
Anger at Iquique spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market27 Nov 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Iquique is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Nicolás Juárez 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.
Squad27 Nov 2028
A row about effort at Iquique
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristopher Barrera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market27 Nov 2028
The clock does Matías Blázquez’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Iquique could ask drops and the wages Matías Blázquez can ask rise.
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Uneasy
Market6 Nov 2028
Only the photograph left for Brayan Garrido
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Brayan Garrido will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Iquique the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Words exchanged at Iquique
Nicolás Juárez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad6 Nov 2028
A row about effort at Iquique
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristopher Barrera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
Nicolás Juárez 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 Iquique, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market6 Nov 2028
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Iquique, another week without a signature from Nicolás Raggio.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Oct 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iquique this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Oct 2028
A row about effort at Iquique
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristopher Barrera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joaquín Pereyra, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Zacarías López has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Iquique will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Ian Araneda'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.
Market23 Oct 2028
The clock does Nicolás Juárez’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Iquique could ask drops and the wages Nicolás Juárez can ask rise.
Market23 Oct 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Iquique know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad23 Oct 2028
The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.
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Crisis
Match16 Sep 2028
0‑3 to Union La Calera, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
“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.
Match18 Sep 2028
The season ends: position 7 for Iquique
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 38 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Match16 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Iquique's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Iquique has to find a result from somewhere.
Match16 Sep 2028
Iquique cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A falling-out at Iquique
Nicolás Juárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A row about effort at Iquique
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Simón Contreras was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Raggio
“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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Diego Orellana, 35, rolls back the years — 8.04
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad31 Jul 2028
A falling-out at Iquique
Nicolás Juárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Jul 2028
The drought breaks for Iquique
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Antofagasta were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Words at Iquique training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álvaro Ramos 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.
Transfer targets31 Jul 2028
Iquique asked and Colo-Colo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match29 Jul 2028
Antofagasta made Iquique work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Steffan Pino
“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.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Pablo Maripan kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Zacarías López is on it.
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Crisis
The terraces3 Jul 2028
Supporters turn on the $390.0K sale of Felipe Dettler
He is going to Universidad de Concepcion, the club has $390.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market3 Jul 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Iquique, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
The deal with Colo-Colo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Jeisson Vargas 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.
Market3 Jul 2028
Universidad de Concepcion pay $390.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
San Marcos de Arica wanted more than $110.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Words at Iquique training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Juárez 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolás Raggio and Iquique agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Iquique asked and O'Higgins said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Crisis
The dugout19 Jun 2028
Joaquín Pereyra: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Iquique have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
$19.0K settles it between the clubs for Lucas Sergi
Rangers de Talca have accepted the money. What Iquique do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market19 Jun 2028
Axel Almeida hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iquique can pretend not to have heard.
Market19 Jun 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Iquique is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market19 Jun 2028
The bid was some way short and Iquique did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A falling-out at Iquique
Jeisson Vargas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A row about effort at Iquique
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Juárez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match17 Jun 2028
San Marcos de Arica left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Upbeat
The terraces15 May 2028
Anger at Iquique spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
The dugout15 May 2028
“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.
Match13 May 2028
Nobody wants to play Iquique right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad15 May 2028
Words exchanged at Iquique
Nicolás Juárez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad15 May 2028
Words at Iquique training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Orellana 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 ratings15 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match13 May 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: César González. 1‑0 against Deportes Recoleta, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout15 May 2028
“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.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Marked 7.51. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Market28 Feb 2028
“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.
Market28 Feb 2028
Only the photograph left for Brayan Garrido
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Brayan Garrido will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Iquique the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Iquique
Jeisson Vargas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Iquique
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Juárez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Jeisson Vargas
“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.
Match26 Feb 2028
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Half-satisfied: Pablo Maripan on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad28 Feb 2028
The division's best last weekend was a Iquique man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Steffan Pino was the best thing in any of them.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Iquique will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Uneasy
Squad27 Dec 2027
40 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Iquique lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The terraces27 Dec 2027
Anger at Iquique spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match27 Dec 2027
Iquique are in real trouble now
Position 16, 17 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market27 Dec 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iquique can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Jeisson Vargas 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Nicolás Juárez 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.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
Iquique asked and Deportes Limache said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The formation has left Nicolás Raggio behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Iquique will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Axel Almeida 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.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Dec 2027
Jeisson Vargas damages knee ligaments — 47 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 47 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market20 Dec 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Iquique have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Boardroom20 Dec 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $35.0K — a club that wants Lucas Beltrán enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets20 Dec 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Iquique have done the hard part with Everton de Viña del Mar, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad20 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iquique this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets20 Dec 2027
Iquique have gone to Deportes Limache with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Diego Orellana 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.
Market20 Dec 2027
Union Espanola paid $56.0K and Iquique took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets20 Dec 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Colo-Colo have kept their man, and Iquique go back to a list with one name crossed off it.