The O'Higgins Sentinel
Market12 Feb 2029
David Fernández asks to leave O'Higgins
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
Bastián Yáñez says O'Higgins 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.
Market12 Feb 2029
Curicó Unido watching Alan Robledo
The interest is real enough to have reached print. O'Higgins have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Omar Carabalí in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at O'Higgins this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
7 academy players handed senior numbers at O'Higgins
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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Santiago Toloza 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.
Match10 Feb 2029
O'Higgins make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
Door shut on Léo Ortiz
O'Higgins asked and Flamengo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces12 Feb 2029
One of their own: David Fernández
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
- Match O'Higgins get the job done against Deportes La Serena
- Market O'Higgins promote Benjamin Bravo from within
- Market Cristian Pulgar steps up from the O'Higgins academy