Marked for Nicolás Cárcamo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Simón Ramírez
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Huachipato lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nicolás Cárcamo is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Huachipato
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Harold Antiñirre was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Lucas Velásquez 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Herrera, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Sergio Núñez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Huachipato 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.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
A 4‑2 win over Union La Calera, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Claudio Torres takes the afternoon — 8.14
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Claudio Torres provided it, and the 8.14 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nicolás Cárcamo, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.89
A mark of 7.89 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match12 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Huachipato and Union La Calera in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Harold Antiñirre 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Claudio Torres has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of José Castro at his very best
Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Huachipato.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Huachipato
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergio Núñez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“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.