Mario Sandoval

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
29 Oct 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mario Sandoval

73 Edition

The Audax Italiano Chronicle

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Franco Troyansky: 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.” Audax Italiano have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

César Maluenda 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 The request is on a desk at Audax Italiano, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Lucas Romero is a medical away from Audax Italiano

The deal with Flamengo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Tempers go at Audax Italiano

Marcos Victor 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.

Transfer targets

Audax Italiano rebuffed over Iván Pomba

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Curicó Unido have kept their man, and Audax Italiano go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Deportes La Serena watching Alessandro Riep

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Audax Italiano have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Bryan Soto 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.

Squad

Mario Sandoval out for 20 days

The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Mario Sandoval, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

Audax Italiano try to borrow Tomás Blanco

Vélez have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

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69 Edition

The Audax Italiano Chronicle

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

23 days out for Jonathan Villagrán after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Audax Italiano will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

José Ojeda hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Audax Italiano can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Audax Italiano

Marcos Victor 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.

Squad

Audax Italiano count the cost of losing Mario Sandoval

52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Bryan Soto 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.

The dugout

Marcelo Ortiz has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Audax Italiano 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 dugout

Franco Troyansky knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Audax Italiano, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jaime Vargas

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jaime Vargas, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Luis Riveros’s exile

6 goals in 9 games at Roda — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Audax Italiano updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief