The San Luis Post
Match13 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for San Luis
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Sergio Vergara runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Fernando Abarzúa signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fernando Abarzúa commits to San Luis for another 3 years.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at San Luis
Cristian González 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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at San Luis
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Vicente Durán 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
San Luis promote Marcelo Aravena from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcelo Aravena 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Tomas Sagal joins the San Luis first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tomas Sagal is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Matias Meneses joins the San Luis first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matias Meneses 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 One of our own: Daniel Isla joins the San Luis first team
- Boardroom San Luis are making the ground bigger
- Squad The manager makes an example of Ignacio Meza