The San Marcos de Arica Gazette
Squad14 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Gonzalo Reyes out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Marcos de Arica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Bairon Monroy runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Facundo Velazco 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 San Marcos de Arica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
Graduation day at San Marcos de Arica
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Álvaro Cazula 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
One of our own: Erick Isla joins the San Marcos de Arica first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erick Isla is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market San Marcos de Arica promote Pablo Valdes from within
- Squad The manager makes an example of Darko Fiamengo
- Match Point won or two lost for San Marcos de Arica?