The Huachipato Chronicle
Market15 Feb 2027
Benjamin Isla is a Huachipato player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market15 Feb 2027
Arturo Montecinos comes home
The shirt still fits. Arturo Montecinos is back at Huachipato, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market15 Feb 2027
Jean Sagal is a Huachipato player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market15 Feb 2027
Ivan Mena is a Huachipato player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Match13 Feb 2027
Huachipato get the job done against Universidad de Concepcion
A 1-0 win over Universidad de Concepcion, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Mateo Morro makes his debut at 21
At 21 years old, Mateo Morro became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Cristián Toro has taken the shirt
At 26 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Huachipato are won quietly and lost loudly.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Nicolás Vargas has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Nicolás Vargas keeps the shirt for now, at Huachipato's convenience rather than his own.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Kevin Altez unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Kevin Altez has let it be known that he does not like the way Huachipato are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
In brief
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Cris Martínez
- Boardroom Huachipato spend it where nobody looks
- The terraces Cris Martínez has his own song now