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The San Marcos de Arica Gazette

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match18 Aug 2029

4 matches without a win for San Marcos de Arica

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around San Marcos de Arica are no longer polite ones.

Squad20 Aug 2029

A falling-out at San Marcos de Arica

Álvaro Cazula and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad20 Aug 2029

A row about effort at San Marcos de Arica

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Felipe Rivarola was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match18 Aug 2029

Antofagasta take the points off San Marcos de Arica

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout20 Aug 2029

Erick Wiemberg 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 dugout20 Aug 2029

Interim Coach faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout20 Aug 2029

A promise honoured at San Marcos de Arica

Something was said to Mauricio Godoy and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Player ratings20 Aug 2029

The cruellest goal, and it is Andrés Robles's

A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and San Marcos de Arica will not try tonight.

Player ratings20 Aug 2029

Mauricio Godoy stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.44 on the card, and the San Marcos de Arica support went home talking about one name.

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The San Marcos de Arica Gazette

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad25 Dec 2028

The knee: Gonzalo Reyes out for 42 days

42 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Marcos de Arica lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The terraces25 Dec 2028

Supporters organise against the San Marcos de Arica board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Transfer targets25 Dec 2028

No thanks: Julio Fierro rejects the move

San Marcos de Arica had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Colo-Colo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad25 Dec 2028

Tempers go at San Marcos de Arica

Andrés Barboza 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.

Squad25 Dec 2028

Yago Felipe 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 targets25 Dec 2028

Door shut on Francisco Marchant

San Marcos de Arica asked and Colo-Colo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market25 Dec 2028

The ambition of Nicolás Castillo outgrows San Marcos de Arica early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

Transfer targets25 Dec 2028

San Marcos de Arica try to borrow Bryan González

Universidad Catolica have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets25 Dec 2028

San Marcos de Arica try to borrow Eduardo Villanueva

Colo-Colo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief