The San Marcos de Arica Gazette
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
Mauricio Fernandez is out at San Marcos de Arica
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
Eduardo Montecinos takes charge at San Marcos de Arica
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Market12 Feb 2029
Only the photograph left for Mateo Falcione
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mateo Falcione will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Marcos de Arica the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Tempers go at San Marcos de Arica
Álvaro Cazula 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.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
3 academy graduates step up at San Marcos de Arica
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match10 Feb 2029
The drought breaks for San Marcos de Arica
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Santiago Wanderers were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A row about effort at San Marcos de Arica
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Velazco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces12 Feb 2029
The crowd has taken to Ignacio Sinturión
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market12 Feb 2029
San Marcos de Arica promote Jean Beausejour from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jean Beausejour 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.
In brief
- Market Tomas Valencia steps up from the San Marcos de Arica academy
- Market One of our own: Luis Pulgar joins the San Marcos de Arica first team
- Match San Marcos de Arica get the job done against Santiago Wanderers