The Cobreloa Post
The dugout12 Feb 2035
Federico Gómez says Cobreloa 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.
Squad12 Feb 2035
Daniel Cortes gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Daniel Cortes has just signed for Cobreloa, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings12 Feb 2035
Deiby Muñoz pops up at the right end — 7.80
7.80, 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.
Squad12 Feb 2035
Duván Riascos 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 Cobreloa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Feb 2035
As if he never left: Federico López returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Federico López is a Cobreloa player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market12 Feb 2035
Tomás Viola is a Cobreloa player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Boardroom12 Feb 2035
Graduation day at Cobreloa
11 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.
Boardroom12 Feb 2035
Julián Ledesma will join Cobreloa for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Julián Ledesma has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Cobreloa have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad12 Feb 2035
Manuel Valle 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.
In brief
- The dugout Hugo Araya gets it from the manager
- Market Cobreloa promote Luis Isla from within
- Market Nicolas Mena steps up from the Cobreloa academy