The San Marcos de Arica Gazette
Match10 Jun 2030
San Marcos de Arica are in real trouble now
Position 16, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market10 Jun 2030
Lukas Fredes asks to leave San Marcos de Arica
“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.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Facundo Velazco in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Marcos de Arica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Words at San Marcos de Arica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nelson Guaiquil is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match8 Jun 2030
San Marcos de Arica come up short against Huachipato
Huachipato left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Diego Ulloa gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Rodrigo Saracho dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings10 Jun 2030
William Gama could not find anything
5.26. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings10 Jun 2030
A day to forget for Nicolás Mello
Marked 5.46, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- Player ratings An afternoon Rodrigo Bareiro will want back
- Player ratings Lukas Fredes could not find anything
- Market Daniel Sanchez leaves for nothing