The O'Higgins Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
So close: Thiago Vecino’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Minnesota United FC moved on, Thiago Vecino reports back to O'Higgins, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Martín Sarrafiore 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 O'Higgins this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Francisco González wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Francisco González stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Francisco González and O'Higgins agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Bastián Yáñez at his very best
Marked 8.28. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at O'Higgins.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Leandro Díaz
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Luis Pavez Muñoz's contract
36 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Bastián Yáñez rescues a point for O'Higgins
It needed Bastián Yáñez to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against San Marcos de Arica, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Martín Sarrafiore
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad O'Higgins pick somebody else ahead of Benjamín Rojas
- Market Still no ink between O'Higgins and Felipe Faúndez