The Everton de Viña del Mar Courier
Squad19 Nov 2029
A fracture rules Julián Guevara out for 95 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Everton de Viña del Mar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Nov 2029
Hernán Perrone has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Everton de Viña del Mar can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad19 Nov 2029
Words exchanged at Everton de Viña del Mar
Sebastián Jaurena 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.
Squad19 Nov 2029
Words at Everton de Viña del Mar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Valdez 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.
The dugout19 Nov 2029
Ignacio González has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Everton de Viña del Mar 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 dugout19 Nov 2029
Ezequiel Moschen 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.
Market19 Nov 2029
The clock does Hernán Perrone’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Everton de Viña del Mar could ask drops and the wages Hernán Perrone can ask rise.
The dugout19 Nov 2029
César González knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and César González trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout19 Nov 2029
The manager comes out for Fernando Rodríguez
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Fernando Rodríguez has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
In brief
- Squad The penny has dropped for Héctor Canelo
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Santino Pasini
- Match Mid-table, and Everton de Viña del Mar know it