The Ñublense Herald
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Ñublense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Francisco Salinas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
22 new faces, and Ñublense are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Felipe Fritz gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Felipe Fritz is on it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Daniel Saavedra 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Matías Plaza knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Matías Plaza trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Daniel Saavedra: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Ñublense will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
In brief
- Squad Francisco Di Franco has company in his position
- Market Ñublense shop where it costs nothing