The Huachipato Chronicle
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Santiago Silva out for 115 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Huachipato will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match12 Aug 2026
Benjamin Aravena sends Huachipato through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Benjamin Aravena obliged against Antofagasta. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Huachipato.
Match12 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Antofagasta as Huachipato pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Huachipato scored in the 123th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Carlos Herrera
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Huachipato
Ezequiel Cañete 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Ezequiel Morales
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Huachipato against Colo-Colo
0‑1 to Colo-Colo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ezequiel Cañete is still paying for one afternoon at Huachipato
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad17 Aug 2026
When it matters, Rodrigo Odriozola plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Player ratings Ezequiel Cañete could not find anything
- Player ratings The referee tires of Santiago Silva
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Rodrigo Odriozola