Emanuel Quiroga

Defensive Midfielder - Deportes Santa Cruz
1 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Emanuel Quiroga

67 Edition

The Deportes Santa Cruz Sentinel

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Diego Urzúa out for 68 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportes Santa Cruz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Deportes Santa Cruz are in real trouble now

Position 14, 33 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for André Rosa

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. André Rosa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportes Santa Cruz the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Mathias Pinto 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 Deportes Santa Cruz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Santa Cruz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jeremías Vallejos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alex Valdes

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alex Valdes, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
50 Edition

The Deportes Santa Cruz Sentinel

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Colo-Colo come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Deportes Santa Cruz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Valentino Albornoz, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.00

A mark of 8.00 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Gino Alucema asks to leave Deportes Santa Cruz

“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.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Vicente Lagos rejects the move

Deportes Santa Cruz had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Santiago Wanderers, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words at Deportes Santa Cruz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jeremías Vallejos 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Santa Cruz

Hardy Cavero 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.

The terraces

Deportes Santa Cruz supporters have found a favourite in Valentino Albornoz

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Valentino Albornoz has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Deportes Santa Cruz find a way past Unión San Felipe

Unión San Felipe made Deportes Santa Cruz work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

Deportes Santa Cruz keep their word to Alex Valdes

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief