The Unión San Felipe Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Unión San Felipe
Norberto Palmieri 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Luis Fernandez steps up from the Unión San Felipe academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Fernandez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Eduardo Riquelme joins the Unión San Felipe first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eduardo Riquelme is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Rodrigo Meneses joins the Unión San Felipe first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rodrigo Meneses is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Unión San Felipe promote Jean Fernandez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jean Fernandez 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jorge Henríquez has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Unión San Felipe know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Ramón Villalba in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Unión San Felipe are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Unión San Felipe
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Half-satisfied: Claudio Aravena on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
In brief
- Match Unión San Felipe draw a blank against Rangers de Talca
- Looking ahead A reunion for Luis García
- The dugout No place in the plan for Byron Guajardo