Claudio Mena

Left Forward - San Luis U18
5 May 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Claudio Mena

133 Edition

The San Luis Post

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Jahir Scott out for 148 days

148 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Luis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Martin Carreño keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” San Luis may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Franco Cortés has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Franco Cortés signs for Union La Calera while still at San Luis

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Franco Cortés has agreed terms with Union La Calera for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Tempers go at San Luis

Gonzalo Bustos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at San Luis

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.

Boardroom

San Luis counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at San Luis now.

Squad

Jeisson Vargas 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 targets

Universidad Catolica tell San Luis: Tiziano Manrique is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief