The Union La Calera Gazette
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Kevin Méndez says Union La Calera went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
A brace, and Ignacio Mesías takes the afternoon — 8.70
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ignacio Mesías provided it, and the 8.70 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Union La Calera
Nicolás Avellaneda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Union La Calera
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Juan Pablo Salomoni 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.
Match12 Feb 2028
Ignacio Mesías sends Union La Calera past Santiago Morning
It finished 2‑1, and it was Ignacio Mesías’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Union La Calera.
Market14 Feb 2028
Union La Calera promote Ivan Diaz from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Diaz has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Feb 2028
Union La Calera promote Matias Pulgar from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matias Pulgar has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Feb 2028
One of our own: Felipe Maripan joins the Union La Calera first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felipe Maripan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Player ratings Leonel Monti runs at them all day
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Camilo Moya gets it from the manager