Ivan Sanchez

Striker - Deportes Santa Cruz
17 Mar 2033
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335 Edition

The Deportes Santa Cruz Sentinel

27 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces27 Dec 2032

Supporters organise against the Deportes Santa Cruz board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad27 Dec 2032

A fracture rules Josepablo Monreal out for 50 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportes Santa Cruz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market27 Dec 2032

Tobías Dieni hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Santa Cruz can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets27 Dec 2032

O'Higgins tell Deportes Santa Cruz: Lautaro Herrera 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.

Squad27 Dec 2032

Words exchanged at Deportes Santa Cruz

Francisco Sotelo 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.

Squad27 Dec 2032

Diego Urzúa 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.

The dugout27 Dec 2032

Diego Urzúa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Transfer targets27 Dec 2032

A loan move for Guillermo López is in the works

Deportes Santa Cruz have made the call to Colo-Colo. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets27 Dec 2032

Deportes Santa Cruz ask about Felipe Pagnutti

A loan enquiry to Universidad de Chile: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

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333 Edition

The Deportes Santa Cruz Sentinel

13 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad13 Dec 2032

64 days out for Josepablo Monreal after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportes Santa Cruz will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match13 Dec 2032

Deportes Santa Cruz are in real trouble now

Position 14, 26 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market13 Dec 2032

Williams Zungu hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Santa Cruz can pretend not to have heard.

Squad13 Dec 2032

Words exchanged at Deportes Santa Cruz

Javier Calderón 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.

Squad13 Dec 2032

Martín Duran arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Martín Duran has, at Deportes Santa Cruz, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets13 Dec 2032

Door shut on Hernán Taborda

Deportes Santa Cruz asked and Universidad Catolica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad13 Dec 2032

Words at Deportes Santa Cruz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Urzúa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout13 Dec 2032

Ivan Sanchez gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market13 Dec 2032

Deportes Santa Cruz bring in an old head

Maximiliano Zelaya is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief

328 Edition

The Deportes Santa Cruz Sentinel

8 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Nov 2032

99 days out for Josepablo Monreal after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportes Santa Cruz will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout8 Nov 2032

Tobías Dieni frozen out at Deportes Santa Cruz

This is not rotation. Tobías Dieni has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Deportes Santa Cruz is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom8 Nov 2032

$863.6K of the owner's money at Deportes Santa Cruz

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Squad8 Nov 2032

A row about effort at Deportes Santa Cruz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Medina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad8 Nov 2032

Nicolás Muñoz is slowing down

At 34, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Boardroom8 Nov 2032

The Deportes Santa Cruz debt reaches $29.2M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

Squad8 Nov 2032

Tempers go at Deportes Santa Cruz

Ivan Sanchez 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.

Market8 Nov 2032

Deportes Santa Cruz and Alan López are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Boardroom8 Nov 2032

96% of the income goes out in wages at Deportes Santa Cruz

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

313 Edition

The Deportes Santa Cruz Sentinel

26 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market26 Jul 2032

Tobías Dieni hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Santa Cruz can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom26 Jul 2032

Deportes Santa Cruz close the window on a squad of their own making

2 in and 12 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad26 Jul 2032

Matías Medina 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 targets26 Jul 2032

Deportes Santa Cruz rebuffed over Sergian Arellano

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Union La Calera have kept their man, and Deportes Santa Cruz go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad26 Jul 2032

A falling-out at Deportes Santa Cruz

Yonghyun Park and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match24 Jul 2032

Santiago Wanderers take the points off Deportes Santa Cruz

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout26 Jul 2032

The team sheet said everything about Juan Dobboletta

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Juan Dobboletta.

The dugout26 Jul 2032

Interim Coach answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout26 Jul 2032

The form table has caught Juan Dobboletta

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief