The Universidad de Concepcion Chronicle
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jorge Broun stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jorge Broun and Universidad de Concepcion agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Universidad de Concepcion
Jorge Broun 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Facundo Mater 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Universidad de Concepcion come up short against O'Higgins
O'Higgins left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Brayan Véjar was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Universidad de Concepcion and Rogelio Funes Mori
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Universidad de Concepcion, another week without a signature from Rogelio Funes Mori.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Miguel Barbieri
Still no offer on the table, and Miguel Barbieri’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Universidad de Concepcion are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Marcelo Sierralta to a room that had heard them before.
In brief
- The dugout Jeison Fuentealba gets it from the manager
- The dugout Jorge Espejo knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Pablo Parra goes back to face Union La Calera