The Audax Italiano Chronicle
Match13 Feb 2027
6 matches without a win for Audax Italiano
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Audax Italiano are no longer polite ones.
Match13 Feb 2027
Whatever happens, Audax Italiano do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Audax Italiano
Rodrigo Cabral 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 Audax Italiano
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
Words at Audax Italiano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Mateos 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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Marco Collao
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Daniel Meneses joins the Audax Italiano first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Meneses 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: Eduardo Aranguiz joins the Audax Italiano first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eduardo Aranguiz 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
Guillermo Meneses steps up from the Audax Italiano academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Guillermo Meneses 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: Luis Aranguiz joins the Audax Italiano first team
- Boardroom The ground is getting bigger
- Player ratings Rodrigo Cabral stands above it all