The San Marcos de Arica Gazette
Squad28 Sep 2026
The knee: Andrés Barboza out for 49 days
49 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Marcos de Arica lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nicolás Zedan breaks a bone — 68 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Sep 2026
Bairon Monroy puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at San Marcos de Arica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Camilo Melivilú 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 San Marcos de Arica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
D'Hidier Pereira is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Boris Sagredo gets picked when it counts
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 Boris Sagredo is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Nicolás Orrego gets it from the manager
- Market Talks stall between San Marcos de Arica and Facundo Loeiro
- The dugout A door opens for Benjamín Tapia
- Market San Marcos de Arica put Fabian Rosales up for sale