The Audax Italiano Chronicle
Market5 Jul 2027
$2.6M — a new record at Audax Italiano
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Market5 Jul 2027
José Cantillana 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 The request is on a desk at Audax Italiano, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match3 Jul 2027
Cobresal end the Audax Italiano run at 9
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 9 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Vito Rosané due for a Audax Italiano medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market5 Jul 2027
Audax Italiano sign Esteban Moreira for $240.0K
The paperwork is done: Esteban Moreira joins from O'Higgins in a deal worth $240.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Audax Italiano
Tomás Ahumada and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
$2.6M for Ian Garguez, and Audax Italiano supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Ian Garguez from Palestino for $2.6M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Nicolás Orellana 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Jablonec tell Audax Italiano: Sunusi Ibrahim is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- Match Cobresal take the points off Audax Italiano
- Player ratings Martín Jiménez was unplayable
- The dugout The view from the dugout