The Deportivo Santani Chronicle
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianfranco Ojeda
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Santani lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Deportivo Santani
Juan Villamayor 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Rodrigo Burgos 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Carlos Gonzalez steps up from the Deportivo Santani academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlos Gonzalez 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
One of our own: Ivan Acosta joins the Deportivo Santani first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Acosta is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Marcelo González has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Santani will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- The dugout Ricardo Bordón asks for a word with the manager
- Market Tobías Torres joins Deportivo Santani to strengthen the squad
- Squad Somebody is after Juan Villamayor’s shirt