Marked for Gabriel Pinto
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” O'Higgins may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Nov 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 O'Higgins this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Nov 2027
“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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Nov 2027
Martín Sarrafiore 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Gabriel Pinto in trouble away from the ground
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Loan watch8 Nov 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at O'Higgins, and 2 appearances in 19 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
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Raised voices on the training ground at O'Higgins
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Bueno knocks on the manager’s door
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Nov 2027
Rodrigo Godoy: 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.” O'Higgins have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Nov 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 O'Higgins this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Villagra, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Jun 2027
Omar Carabalí decides it from twelve yards
5 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 39, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match9 Jun 2027
O'Higgins through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over Palestino, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market14 Jun 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 O'Higgins can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market14 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done: Jonathan Villagra joins from Colo-Colo in a deal worth $420.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Market14 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done: Nicolás Aedo joins from Audax Italiano in a deal worth $350.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad14 Jun 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 O'Higgins this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match17 Mar 2027
O'Higgins march on in the cup
Antofagasta are out and O'Higgins go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 31, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Martín Sarrafiore 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Huachipato defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Martín Sarrafiore has let it be known that he does not like the way O'Higgins are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.