Ivan Davila

Defensive Midfielder - Antofagasta
20 Aug 2028
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The Antofagasta Sentinel

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom22 Nov 2027

Pressure builds in the Antofagasta boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Words exchanged at Antofagasta

Matías Gallegos and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Jeremías Merlo 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.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Adrián Cuadra

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market22 Nov 2027

The Matías Gallegos question follows Antofagasta around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Matías Gallegos’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Rodrigo Soria has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Antofagasta will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

A door opens for Fabián Manzano

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Rodrigo Astorga knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rodrigo Astorga trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market22 Nov 2027

Still no signature from Rodrigo Escandar

5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Antofagasta could get for him.

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The Antofagasta Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match13 Feb 2027

A hiding for Antofagasta

Beaten 0‑4 by Universidad de Chile, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match13 Feb 2027

The wait goes on for Antofagasta

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Diego Salvia keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Antofagasta may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Christian Bravo 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.

Boardroom15 Feb 2027

Graduation day at Antofagasta

3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Rodrigo Escandar signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rodrigo Escandar and Antofagasta agree another 1 years.

Market15 Feb 2027

Ivan Davila steps up from the Antofagasta academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Davila 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.

Market15 Feb 2027

One of our own: Tomas Sagal joins the Antofagasta first team

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

Market15 Feb 2027

Antofagasta promote Alexis Mena from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexis Mena 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