The O'Higgins Sentinel
Market16 Feb 2032
Omar Carabalí asks to leave O'Higgins
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings16 Feb 2032
A brace, and Fabrizio Delgadillo takes the afternoon — 8.37
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Fabrizio Delgadillo provided it, and the 8.37 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market16 Feb 2032
JP Galvão is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at O'Higgins is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match14 Feb 2032
O'Higgins cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Boardroom16 Feb 2032
JP Galvão signs for Universidad Catolica while still at O'Higgins
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. JP Galvão has agreed terms with Universidad Catolica for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad16 Feb 2032
Words exchanged at O'Higgins
Felipe Faúndez 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.
Boardroom16 Feb 2032
14 academy players handed senior numbers at O'Higgins
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.
Match14 Feb 2032
O'Higgins see off Curicó Unido
Three points for O'Higgins, 2‑0 the final word against Curicó Unido in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market16 Feb 2032
Sebastian Medel steps up from the O'Higgins academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sebastian Medel 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Gary Sagal joins the O'Higgins first team
- Squad Home is on Ivan Bašić's mind
- The dugout JP Galvão gets it from the manager