Marked for Bruno Torres
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad28 May 2029
The knee: Bruno Torres out for 70 days
70 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Colo-Colo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match23 May 2029
Colo-Colo through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Deportes Copiapó, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match26 May 2029
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against O'Higgins, and it could have been more.
Player ratings28 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings28 May 2029
Two goals and a mark of 9.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market28 May 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 May 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colo-Colo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 May 2029
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad28 May 2029
55 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad21 May 2029
The knee: Bruno Torres out for 78 days
78 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Colo-Colo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 May 2029
“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 The request is on a desk at Colo-Colo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market21 May 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colo-Colo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 May 2029
Samuel Lucero 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.
The dugout21 May 2029
“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.
Match19 May 2029
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 May 2029
Words at Colo-Colo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Claudio Aquino 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.
Market21 May 2029
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Match19 May 2029
The run is over for Colo-Colo
4 matches without defeat, and then Universidad Catolica. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Market
No place for Lucas Soto in the plan
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The dugout
Samuel Lucero gets picked when it counts
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Steady
Match23 Nov 2027
2‑2 against Independiente, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Víctor Felipe Méndez was at the centre of the description.
Match23 Nov 2027
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Víctor Felipe Méndez will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Colo-Colo escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Gonzalo 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 Colo-Colo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Bruno Torres is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market29 Nov 2027
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Colo-Colo can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market29 Nov 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Aranguiz has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market29 Nov 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Pulgar has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market29 Nov 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcelo Jara has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Upbeat
Match14 Sep 2027
Colo-Colo do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Colo-Colo came through the finding-out well against Independiente.
Market20 Sep 2027
“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 Colo-Colo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match20 Sep 2027
Colo-Colo finish in position 4
55 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Colo-Colo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Colo-Colo — 7.76
1 for Agustín Maidana, marked 7.76, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad20 Sep 2027
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A goal and an assist for Gonzalo — 7.92
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.92 beside his name.
The terraces20 Sep 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match18 Sep 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Agustín Maidana’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Colo-Colo.