Marked for Jesús Juárez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Ñublense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudio Fernández was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Claudio Fernández, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Ñublense
Jesús 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Coquimbo Unido in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I will play as long as the body lets me and stop the day it does not.” He is 36, with 212 appearances behind him, and the club has to plan for a decision that is not yet made.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
A move Luca Falabella 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. Luca Falabella is living that version at Ñublense, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Ñublense
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ñublense are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Ñublense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Falabella 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Ñublense
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Palestino, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ñublense are still strangers to each other
21 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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 dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Salomón, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Magallanes ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ñublense
Ignacio Tapia 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jesús Juárez arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Jesús Juárez has, at Ñublense, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Fabián Ramos 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ñublense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Carlos Salomón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pablo Maripan and Ñublense agree another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Half-satisfied: Jorge Nunez on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
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 Ignacio Jeraldino is on it.