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Upbeat
Squad9 Aug 2027
“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.
Market9 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at O'Higgins is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabián Hormazábal commits to O'Higgins for another 3 years.
Match7 Aug 2027
A 2-0 win over San Marcos de Arica, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad9 Aug 2027
4 goals and a season average of 7.29. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Nicolás Aedo 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.
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Upbeat
Squad2 Aug 2027
Nicolás Aedo: 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.” O'Higgins have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Aug 2027
The deal that would have taken Jorge Peña to Huachipato has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to O'Higgins with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fabián Hormazábal and O'Higgins agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market2 Aug 2027
The name of Martín Castro has come up in conversations O'Higgins were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Bryan Rabello
“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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Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Omar Carabalí knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Bryan Rabello
“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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Steady
Match17 Mar 2027
O'Higgins march on in the cup
Iquique are out and O'Higgins go through, 1-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match20 Mar 2027
Huachipato left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad22 Mar 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Omar Carabalí knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Bryan Rabello
“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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Martín Sarrafiore has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. O'Higgins know, and have known for weeks.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Leiva and O'Higgins agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match6 Mar 2027
Palestino made O'Higgins work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. O'Higgins have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Bryan Rabello knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at O'Higgins, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 Mar 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Diego Soto may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Match9 Sep 2026
O'Higgins march on in the cup
Colo-Colo are out and O'Higgins go through, 2-1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rodrigo Godoy and O'Higgins agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 29 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. O'Higgins have a decision that made itself.
Market14 Sep 2026
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Ariel Córdova moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.