The Cobreloa Post
Squad14 Feb 2028
The knee: Nicolás Abregú out for 92 days
92 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cobreloa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match12 Feb 2028
7 matches without a win for Cobreloa
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Cobreloa are no longer polite ones.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Gonzalo Laborda keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cobreloa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Cobreloa
Cristián Cuevas 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.
Match12 Feb 2028
4 matches without a goal for Cobreloa
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Cobreloa
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Diego García 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.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
Bryan González will join Cobreloa for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Bryan González has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Cobreloa have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market14 Feb 2028
One of our own: Jean Fernandez joins the Cobreloa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jean Fernandez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Pablo Sanchez joins the Cobreloa first team
- Market One of our own: Claudio Vargas joins the Cobreloa first team
- Market Claudio Mena steps up from the Cobreloa academy