The Universidad de Chile Gazette
Match12 Feb 2028
The wait goes on for Universidad de Chile
6 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.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Maximiliano Guerrero beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Universidad de Chile
Charles 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
Fabián Hormazábal wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Universidad de Chile
2 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
One of our own: Ivan Isla joins the Universidad de Chile first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Isla is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Feb 2028
Universidad de Chile promote Erick Davila from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Erick Davila 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.
Match12 Feb 2028
A bad afternoon for Universidad de Chile against Antofagasta
0‑1 to Antofagasta, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
No hiding place for Gonzalo Montes
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gonzalo Montes, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Universidad de Chile board did not keep
- Boardroom Nobody left the Universidad de Chile dressing room in a hurry
- The dugout Gary Aranguiz answers for it