Benjamin Vargas

Goalkeeper - Deportes Limache U18
13 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Benjamin Vargas

2 Edition

The Deportes Limache Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Jean Meneses scores twice — 7.85

Two goals and a mark of 7.85 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Esteban Kirkman arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Esteban Kirkman has, at Deportes Limache, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Limache

Joaquín Montecinos 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.

Match

Deportes Limache get the job done against Deportes La Serena

A 2‑1 win over Deportes La Serena, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Deportes Limache promote Benjamin Vargas from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benjamin Vargas 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.

Market

One of our own: Ivan Castillo joins the Deportes Limache first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Castillo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Alexis Isla joins the Deportes Limache first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexis Isla is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Gary Aranguiz joins the Deportes Limache first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gary Aranguiz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

No hiding place for Lucas Roa

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Roa, and the manager let it.

In brief