Marked for Brayan Hurtado
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Iván Rozas
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Aug 2027
Brayan Hurtado wins it after the whistle should have gone
94 minutes played. Brayan Hurtado found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and San Marcos de Arica went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Sebastián Leyton 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Adam Wihed gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Adam Wihed has just signed for Antofagasta, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad23 Aug 2027
José Bandez 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
The afternoon belonged to José Bandez
7.50, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Antofagasta had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Market23 Aug 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Too much change too quickly at Antofagasta
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match17 Mar 2027
O'Higgins go through and Antofagasta go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Sebastián Leyton 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Diego Rojas. 1‑0 against Palestino, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Brayan Hurtado
“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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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Christian Bravo out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Antofagasta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Antofagasta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Antofagasta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Rozas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Antofagasta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Iván Rozas commits to Antofagasta for another 4 years.