The Universidad de Chile Gazette
Match10 Feb 2029
Juan Martín Lucero leads the rout of Antofagasta
3‑0, and Juan Martín Lucero took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Universidad de Chile tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings12 Feb 2029
A brace, and Juan Martín Lucero takes the afternoon — 8.79
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Juan Martín Lucero provided it, and the 8.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Joaquín Fernández breaks a bone — 21 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
Axel Encinas: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Universidad de Chile have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Feb 2029
Flavio Moya has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Universidad de Chile they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
A new deal for Jose Fernandez
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A falling-out at Universidad de Chile
Nicolás Ramírez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market12 Feb 2029
Rodrigo Sosa comes home
The shirt still fits. Rodrigo Sosa is back at Universidad de Chile, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Universidad de Chile
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
- Market One of our own: Marcelo Maripan joins the Universidad de Chile first team
- Market One of our own: Eduardo Sanchez joins the Universidad de Chile first team
- Player ratings Antonio Díaz beats them one at a time