Gary Sanchez

Left Forward - Ñublense U18
25 May 2030
Saturday
Process

Marked for Gary Sanchez

196 Edition

The Ñublense Herald

29 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Nicolás Temperini damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Iñaki Larthirigoyen puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ñublense, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Iñaki Larthirigoyen scores twice — 8.66

Two goals and a mark of 8.66 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Ignacio Fuenzalida is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ñublense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Ñublense

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

Match

Still nobody has beaten Ñublense

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Ñublense find a way past Deportes Concepción

Deportes Concepción made Ñublense work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Ñublense count the cost of losing Gary Sanchez

22 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Alejandro Azócar in the eights

A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Ñublense training over how hard people work
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout The plan did not have a place for Agustín Nadruz
Back issues
137 Edition

The Ñublense Herald

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Román Gamarra out for 66 days

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

Player ratings

Javier Correa, 36, rolls back the years — 7.82

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.82 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Gianluca Mancuso pops up at the right end — 7.55

7.55, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Jesús Juárez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ñublense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ñublense

Leonel Müller 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Ñublense

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

Match

Ñublense find a way past Palestino

Palestino made Ñublense work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Gary Sanchez out for 25 days

The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Gary Sanchez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Iñaki Larthirigoyen was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Galo Volpe
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Looking ahead A reunion for Alejandro Azócar