Andres Castillo

Goalkeeper - Portuguesa U18
19 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Andres Castillo

15 Edition

The Portuguesa Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A European night to forget for Portuguesa

0‑3. Palmeiras play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.

Squad

Juan Reyes stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

The wait goes on for Portuguesa

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Portuguesa lose Andres Castillo

35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

Only the photograph left for Álbaro Polo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Álbaro Polo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Portuguesa the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

Portuguesa cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

A falling-out at Portuguesa

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

Squad

Óscar González 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Christian Flores

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Flores, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Portuguesa Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Juan Reyes keeps Portuguesa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Lautaro Lovazzano has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Portuguesa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

José Calzadilla has agreed to leave Portuguesa for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Jonathan Cañete in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Portuguesa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Héber García

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Andres Castillo steps up from the Portuguesa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andres Castillo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Portuguesa promote Jose Ramirez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jose Ramirez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Cristian Castillo steps up from the Portuguesa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cristian Castillo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Edwin Peraza

Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief