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623 Edition

The O'Higgins Sentinel

5 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match3 Jul 2038

No end in sight to O'Higgins's wait for a win

17 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at O'Higgins has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad5 Jul 2038

Joaquín Flandes says O'Higgins went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad5 Jul 2038

Gastón Martirena 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.

Squad5 Jul 2038

10 seasons of Lautaro Blas

186 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and O'Higgins know what they have.

Squad5 Jul 2038

Joaquín Muñoz is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.53 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match3 Jul 2038

Huachipato take the points off O'Higgins

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings5 Jul 2038

Joaquín Muñoz was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.97. 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.

Market5 Jul 2038

The Sebastian Maripan conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Palestino will make the call about Sebastian Maripan this week. O'Higgins have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Boardroom5 Jul 2038

Intake day at the O'Higgins academy

8 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
597 Edition

The O'Higgins Sentinel

4 Jan 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market4 Jan 2038

Eyes on Joaquín Muñoz again

The phone has started ringing about Joaquín Muñoz again, and this time the name on the line is Antofagasta. O'Higgins are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad4 Jan 2038

Tempers go at O'Higgins

Joaquín Muñoz 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.

Squad4 Jan 2038

Felipe Goto signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Felipe Goto commits to O'Higgins for another 3 years.

Squad4 Jan 2038

Words at O'Higgins training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youri Castagne 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.

Squad4 Jan 2038

Lautaro Blas has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at O'Higgins 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.

Boardroom4 Jan 2038

The O'Higgins production line keeps running

118 graduates out of an academy now rated 11 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief

576 Edition

The O'Higgins Sentinel

10 Aug 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Aug 2037

Omar Carabalí breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market10 Aug 2037

Sanjeev van Haren has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around O'Higgins they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad10 Aug 2037

Tempers go at O'Higgins

Joaquín Muñoz 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.

Match8 Aug 2037

The run at home goes on for O'Higgins

9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Player ratings10 Aug 2037

Nobody could get near Tomás Ángel

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad10 Aug 2037

Felipe Zilli falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad10 Aug 2037

Sergio Leiva signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sergio Leiva and O'Higgins agree another 2 years.

Player ratings10 Aug 2037

The chances came and went for Esteban Calderón

12 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Match8 Aug 2037

No goals between O'Higgins and San Marcos de Arica

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. San Marcos de Arica will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

560 Edition

The O'Higgins Sentinel

20 Apr 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad20 Apr 2037

Matías Pandiella damages knee ligaments — 75 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 75 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings20 Apr 2037

Esteban Calderón, 33, rolls back the years — 7.87

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.87 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match18 Apr 2037

No end in sight to O'Higgins's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at O'Higgins has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad20 Apr 2037

Tempers go at O'Higgins

Joaquín Muñoz 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.

Player ratings20 Apr 2037

Esteban Barraza runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad20 Apr 2037

Felipe Zilli falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

557 Edition

The O'Higgins Sentinel

30 Mar 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Mar 2037

Matías Pandiella damages knee ligaments — 96 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 96 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match28 Mar 2037

Chastening afternoon for O'Higgins

A 0‑4 beating by Universidad Catolica was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad30 Mar 2037

Omar Carabalí keeps O'Higgins in it on his own

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.

Squad30 Mar 2037

Joaquín Muñoz 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 O'Higgins this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings30 Mar 2037

Tomás Ángel runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad30 Mar 2037

Omar Carabalí 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.

In brief