Marked for Brian Torrealba
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match20 Apr 2030
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Deportes Temuco did not have in the autumn.
Market22 Apr 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Deportes Temuco they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Matheus Alexandre and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Leszczuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Marked 7.22. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Boardroom22 Apr 2030
Nobody arrives at Deportes Temuco until somebody leaves
The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Deportes Temuco this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.
The dugout22 Apr 2030
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout22 Apr 2030
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad25 Mar 2030
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportes Temuco lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market25 Mar 2030
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexánder Licona will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportes Temuco the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market25 Mar 2030
Luciano Berg hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Temuco can pretend not to have heard.
Match23 Mar 2030
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad25 Mar 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportes Temuco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Mar 2030
Words at Deportes Temuco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Bramajo 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.
Market25 Mar 2030
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Brian Torrealba has his answer from Deportes Temuco; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout25 Mar 2030
“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.
Squad25 Mar 2030
6 new faces, and Deportes Temuco 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Deportes Temuco can only buy what they sell
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
César Huanca asks for a word with the manager
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Sep 2029
Emiliano Amor 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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Pedro Felipe gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Pedro Felipe has just signed for Deportes Temuco, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Leszczuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
“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.
Market24 Sep 2029
The clock does Emiliano Amor’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Deportes Temuco could ask drops and the wages Emiliano Amor can ask rise.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexánder Licona trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market24 Sep 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yerko Urra’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
Sebastián Molina has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportes Temuco will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad24 Sep 2029
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Matheus Alexandre keeps the shirt for now, at Deportes Temuco's convenience rather than his own.
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Crisis
Market3 Sep 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market3 Sep 2029
“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.
Match1 Sep 2029
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Deportes Temuco are no longer polite ones.
Squad3 Sep 2029
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Deportes Temuco know it.
Match1 Sep 2029
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Yerko Urra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Leszczuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch3 Sep 2029
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Deportes Temuco, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout3 Sep 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yerko Urra, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market27 Aug 2029
The offer from Persik for Luciano Berg was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad27 Aug 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportes Temuco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Words at Deportes Temuco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Claudio Torres 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.
Match25 Aug 2029
3 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.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
“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.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
Joaquín Aros left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Joaquín Aros will call it something else in private.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Juan Jara after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Steady
The dugout20 Aug 2029
“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.
Match20 Aug 2029
Deportes Temuco refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 43 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market20 Aug 2029
The offer from Araz-Nakhchivan for Rodrigo Fernández was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings20 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market20 Aug 2029
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Antonio Ceza wants continental football; whether Deportes Temuco can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Yerko Urra 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.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Leszczuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout20 Aug 2029
Kauã 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.
The dugout20 Aug 2029
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Juan Jara was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Deportes Temuco dressing room was either.
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Steady
Market9 Jul 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Temuco can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Yerko Urra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match7 Jul 2029
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Deportes Temuco did not have in the autumn.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Iván Leszczuk 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.
Transfer targets9 Jul 2029
Deportes Temuco asked and Everton de Viña del Mar 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 dugout9 Jul 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Bramajo, and the manager let it.
Market9 Jul 2029
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout9 Jul 2029
David Bramajo gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say David Bramajo is on it.
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Steady
Market25 Jun 2029
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Deportes Temuco people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
Ignacio Viaín: 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.” Deportes Temuco have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market25 Jun 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Francisco Politino will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportes Temuco the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Iván Leszczuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Words at Deportes Temuco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamín Gazzolo 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.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
“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.
Market25 Jun 2029
The name of Rodrigo Fernández has come up in conversations Deportes Temuco were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match23 Jun 2029
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match19 May 2029
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market21 May 2029
Agustín Zapata has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Deportes Temuco they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match19 May 2029
No end in sight to Deportes Temuco's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Deportes Temuco has to find a result from somewhere.
Match19 May 2029
4 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.
Squad21 May 2029
Yerko Urra 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.
Squad21 May 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Leszczuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 May 2029
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout21 May 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brian Torrealba, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market30 Apr 2029
Kevin Serrano hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Temuco can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match28 Apr 2029
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market30 Apr 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportes Temuco is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Deportes Temuco are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Yerko Urra 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 Deportes Temuco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Words at Deportes Temuco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Leszczuk 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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
A goalkeeper's career is counted in the games nobody scored in, and Yerko Urra now has 50 of them across 231 appearances. Nothing about that number was luck.
Market30 Apr 2029
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Brian Torrealba has his answer from Deportes Temuco; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Market26 Mar 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportes Temuco is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Mar 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportes Temuco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Iván Leszczuk 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.
Match24 Mar 2029
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Pedro Sánchez. 1‑0 against Deportes Recoleta, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market26 Mar 2029
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Deportes Temuco has been clear about where Franco Tassitani stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
The manager makes an example of Thomas González
“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.
Boardroom26 Mar 2029
99% of the income goes out in wages at Deportes Temuco
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.80 on the card, and the Deportes Temuco support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Mar 2029
Lucas Bersce is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Lucas Bersce: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match17 Mar 2029
19 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market19 Mar 2029
Bryan Rabello hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Temuco can pretend not to have heard.
Market19 Mar 2029
Only the photograph left for Kauã
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kauã will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportes Temuco the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match17 Mar 2029
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Yerko Urra 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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Words at Deportes Temuco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Leszczuk 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.
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Crisis
Squad5 Mar 2029
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportes Temuco will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
An order from above at Deportes Temuco: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Market5 Mar 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Deportes Temuco they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match3 Mar 2029
After 8 games, Deportes Temuco finally taste it again
The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Palestino; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Pedro Sánchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings5 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Words at Deportes Temuco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Leszczuk 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.
The dugout5 Mar 2029
“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.
Match3 Mar 2029
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Feb 2029
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportes Temuco will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Deportes Temuco have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Feb 2029
Kauã has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Deportes Temuco they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match17 Feb 2029
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Feb 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportes Temuco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Benjamín Gazzolo 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.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
César Huanca 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.
Player ratings19 Feb 2029
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom19 Feb 2029
Wages eat 101% of everything Deportes Temuco earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Steady
Match12 Jun 2028
Deportes Temuco refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 28 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market12 Jun 2028
“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 Deportes Temuco, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Iván Leszczuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Jun 2028
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Words at Deportes Temuco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Torrealba 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.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
“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.