The Union Espanola Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Patricio Rubio yet — 8.06
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.06 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Union Espanola
Pablo Aránguiz 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Pablo Aránguiz runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Union Espanola against Audax Italiano
1‑3 to Audax Italiano, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nicolas Isla steps up from the Union Espanola academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicolas Isla 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Felipe Mena joins the Union Espanola first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felipe Mena is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Union Espanola promote Jorge Castillo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Castillo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Union Espanola promote Jose Pulgar from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jose Pulgar 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sebastián Pereira makes it 100
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Renato Cordero
- The dugout Mauricio Valencia: “No excuses”
- Looking ahead Patricio Rubio faces his old club