3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Unión San Felipe can tell you which week it ends in.
Brandon Molina 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.
“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.
Loan watch3 May 2027
Bairo Riveros is tired of being somebody else's player
“Another season, another badge, another dressing room to win over. I would like one pre-season at Unión San Felipe where somebody actually looks at me.” He belongs to Deportes Recoleta until the spell ends; the argument is with the club that owns him.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Ignacio Jara has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Bruno Vides decided nobody was going anywhere. Deportes Temuco had no time left to answer.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gustavo Merino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
8.23. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Brandon Molina 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 dugout15 Mar 2027
Brian Gómez 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.
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Cristian Mena, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Unión San Felipe have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Unión San Felipe has to find a result from somewhere.
The shirt still fits. Brandon Molina is back at Unión San Felipe, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Norberto Palmieri 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.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Brandon Molina is living that version at Unión San Felipe, and it tends to show in the first month.
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicolas Aravena has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jose Bravo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Jara has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.