The Union Espanola Gazette
Market11 Jan 2027
Sebastián Pereira raises the bar for Union Espanola
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Union Espanola heard it as anything else.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Francesco Lo Celso turns down Union Espanola
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Rosario Central keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Union Espanola
Pablo Aránguiz 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Diego Robles at Union Espanola
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Diego Robles is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Estudiantes tell Union Espanola: Eric Meza is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Felipe Massri has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market11 Jan 2027
Guillermo Osorio steps up from the Union Espanola academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Guillermo Osorio 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Union Espanola promote Daniel Aravena from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Aravena 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: Erick Osorio joins the Union Espanola first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erick Osorio is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Union Espanola
- Transfer targets Union Espanola try to borrow Benjamín Araya
- Transfer targets Union Espanola ask about Juan Figueroa