The Iquique Gazette
Squad12 Feb 2029
A fracture rules Mauricio Diaz out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Iquique will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Feb 2029
No end in sight to Iquique's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Iquique has to find a result from somewhere.
Match10 Feb 2029
Iquique 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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Iquique
Álvaro Ramos 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.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Iquique
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Facundo Pons 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.
Match10 Feb 2029
Union Espanola take the points off Iquique
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
The manager makes an example of Zacarías López
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market12 Feb 2029
One of our own: Ivan Sierralta joins the Iquique first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Sierralta is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Iquique promote Claudio Riquelme from within
- Market One of our own: Claudio Mena joins the Iquique first team
- Market One of our own: Daniel Jara joins the Iquique first team