The Antofagasta Sentinel
Match13 Feb 2027
No mercy from Antofagasta
Magallanes will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Antofagasta were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A brace, and Diego Rojas takes the afternoon — 8.45
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Diego Rojas provided it, and the 8.45 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Zacarías Abu habda, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94
A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Adrián Cuadra 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
A falling-out at Antofagasta
Mathías Suárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market15 Feb 2027
Brayan Zapata is a Antofagasta player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market15 Feb 2027
Francisco Mucci comes home
The shirt still fits. Francisco Mucci is back at Antofagasta, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A move Brayan Zapata would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Brayan Zapata is living that version at Antofagasta, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Antofagasta
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Zacarías Abu habda
- Market One of our own: Matias Diaz joins the Antofagasta first team
- Market One of our own: Daniel Jara joins the Antofagasta first team