The Universidad de Concepcion Chronicle
Market28 Sep 2026
Jorge Espejo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Universidad de Concepcion they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
José Sanhueza keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Universidad de Concepcion may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Universidad de Concepcion
Miguel Barbieri 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Yerco Oyanedel 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bryan Ogaz 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Player of the week: Rogelio Funes Mori
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Bryan Ogaz has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Universidad de Concepcion 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Cristhofer Mesías 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 Universidad de Concepcion, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clock does Cristhofer Mesías’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Universidad de Concepcion could ask drops and the wages Cristhofer Mesías can ask rise.
In brief
- Loan watch 4 goals on loan for Mateo Levato
- Squad The penny has dropped for Jorge Broun