The Colo-Colo Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Colo-Colo
Tomás Alarcón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market10 Aug 2026
Colo-Colo may not be able to give Erick Wiemberg what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Erick Wiemberg wants continental football; whether Colo-Colo can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Colo-Colo promote Pablo Isla from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pablo Isla 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Colo-Colo promote Claudio Castillo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Claudio Castillo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Colo-Colo promote Sebastian Valencia from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sebastian Valencia 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jonathan Villagra signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonathan Villagra commits to Colo-Colo for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
15 new faces, and Colo-Colo 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nothing got past Iván Román
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Matías Fernández was the difference for Colo-Colo
Marked 7.58. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
In brief
- The dugout Claudio Castillo on the point
- Match No goals between Colo-Colo and Santiago Wanderers
- Looking ahead Víctor Felipe Méndez goes back to face Union Espanola