The Antofagasta Sentinel
Squad19 Feb 2029
A fracture rules Bryan Van Den Bogaert out for 88 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Antofagasta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Feb 2029
Matías Fredes has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Antofagasta they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Maximiliano Guerrero in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Antofagasta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Feb 2029
A move Hernán López would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Hernán López is living that version at Antofagasta, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Juan Díaz 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.
Market19 Feb 2029
A long bet from Antofagasta on Thiago Charras
He is 20, and nobody at Antofagasta signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market19 Feb 2029
Antofagasta buy the years ahead of Hernán López
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Player ratings19 Feb 2029
Maximiliano Guerrero runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Feb 2029
Antofagasta draw a blank against O'Higgins
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. O'Higgins defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- Player ratings Matías Gallegos never got going
- Player ratings Sebastián Leyton could not find anything
- Market Josepablo Monreal runs his contract down