The Colo-Colo Chronicle
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tomás Alarcón 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 Colo-Colo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
Nobody is scoring past Brayan Cortés at Argentinos Juniors
9 shut-outs in 13 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Brayan Cortés has been having a lot of them.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Lucas Soto 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Tomás Alarcón linked with a move away
The name of Tomás Alarcón keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Colo-Colo say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes Lautaro Pastrán a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Colo-Colo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Jonathan Villagra asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Alvaro Madrid
- Squad Alvaro Madrid is training like a man with a point to make
- Squad Pablo Isla is fit again