The Deportes La Serena Gazette
Squad14 Sep 2026
The knee: Gary Sierralta out for 19 days
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportes La Serena lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Deportes La Serena
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Deportes La Serena are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Deportes La Serena
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Stefanelli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
Deportes La Serena promote Pablo Riquelme from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pablo Riquelme 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 Sep 2026
Deportes La Serena come up short against Audax Italiano
Audax Italiano left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Marcelo Aranguiz faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Marcelo Aranguiz after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Diego González Torres is a square peg at Deportes La Serena
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
When it matters, Francis Mac Allister plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Matías Ávila gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout Deportes La Serena pick somebody else ahead of Matías Pinto
- Looking ahead A reunion for Matías Marín
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Ángelo Henríquez