The O'Higgins Sentinel
Match2 Oct 2028
O'Higgins are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 50 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at O'Higgins
Felipe Faúndez 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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Luis Pavez Muñoz signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luis Pavez Muñoz and O'Higgins agree another 2 years.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Words at O'Higgins training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Espínola 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 dugout2 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Segundo Pachamé
“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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
A place in the month's best eleven for José Movillo
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. José Movillo has come out of that comparison in the side, and O'Higgins have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
Bastián Yáñez 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 Bastián Yáñez is on it.
Market2 Oct 2028
O'Higgins and Segundo Pachamé are talking past each other
“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.
Market2 Oct 2028
No place for Benjamín Rojas in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Benjamín Rojas has his answer from O'Higgins; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Market The Omar Carabalí talk will not go away
- Market Still no signature from Segundo Pachamé
- The dugout Sebastián Parada knocks on the manager's door