The Ñublense Herald
Squad14 Feb 2028
Matías Plaza breaks a bone — 81 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Juan Carlos Garrido
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ñublense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Alexis Rodríguez keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ñublense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market14 Feb 2028
Ángelo Henríquez agrees terms with Coquimbo Unido
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Ñublense people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Ñublense
Marcos Arturia 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.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Ñublense
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match12 Feb 2028
A bad afternoon for Ñublense against O'Higgins
1‑3 to O'Higgins, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Benjamín Chandía 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.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
Door shut on Alexis González
Ñublense asked and River Plate said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Market Ñublense promote Alexis Nunez from within
- Market Ñublense promote Nicolas Castillo from within
- Market Sebastian Aravena steps up from the Ñublense academy