The Curicó Unido Herald
Squad18 Jan 2027
Ronald de la Fuente 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 Curicó Unido this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Late improvement for Gabriel Sarria
At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Curicó Unido
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Viudez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The window shuts on the Vicente Ramírez deal
Curicó Unido ran out of time with Universidad de Chile. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Market18 Jan 2027
The Damián Tello story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Damián Tello signs something — a contract at Curicó Unido or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
When it matters, Benjamín Inostroza 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
- The dugout Joaquín Mattalia has been promised minutes
- The dugout Francisco Oliver keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Ivan Castillo is out on the grass again