The Cobresal Herald
Market11 Jan 2027
Franco Bechtholdt puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cobresal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Benjamin Nunez out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cobresal will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Ignacio Moreno at Cobresal
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ignacio Moreno is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market11 Jan 2027
Juan Fuentes raises the bar for Cobresal
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Cobresal heard it as anything else.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Cobresal
Christian Moreno 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Talleres tell Cobresal: Mateo Mamani is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market11 Jan 2027
Benjamin Davila steps up from the Cobresal academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Davila 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Cobresal promote Pablo Sanchez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pablo Sanchez 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
César Yanis 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Cobresal ask about JP Chermont
- Transfer targets A loan move for Benjamín González is in the works
- The dugout Benjamín Valenzuela gets it from the manager