The Palestino Chronicle
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Brian Conberse: 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.” Palestino have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Palestino
Julián Fernández 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.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Camilo Durán was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Camilo Durán 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.
Match19 Feb 2028
Palestino come up short against Union Espanola
Union Espanola left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Too much change too quickly at Palestino
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Matias Sanchez faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Matias Sanchez after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Federico Anselmo dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Enzo Roco gets it from the manager
“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.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Lucas Barrera
- Squad Competition arrives for Ariel Martínez
- Looking ahead An away day at Universidad de Chile next for Palestino