Marked for Ignacio González
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Gonzalo Mall: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Everton de Viña del Mar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Dieter Villalpando 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Diego Oyarzún 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bryan Cortés and Everton de Viña del Mar agree another 1 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Everton de Viña del Mar are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market12 Oct 2026
Bryan Cortés arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Everton de Viña del Mar has to find a result from somewhere.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamín Berríos 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑2 to Iquique, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio González, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tomas Mena after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Everton de Viña del Mar are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dieter Villalpando 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benjamín Berríos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
O'Higgins left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Market17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Rodrigo Migone in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Everton de Viña del Mar are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marcelo Jorquera has just signed for Everton de Viña del Mar, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Everton de Viña del Mar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Juan Delgado returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Juan Delgado is a Everton de Viña del Mar player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market10 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Felipe Campos is back at Everton de Viña del Mar, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market10 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Diego Oyarzún is back at Everton de Viña del Mar, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Cristhofer Mesías has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Everton de Viña del Mar have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dieter Villalpando 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benjamín Berríos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Alan Medina beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Everton de Viña del Mar are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Tomas Mena was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Everton de Viña del Mar dressing room was either.
Match1 Aug 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Union Espanola defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.