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The Iquique Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Up for the corner, and Joaquín Pereyra delivers — 7.83

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Joaquín Pereyra scored, was marked 7.83, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Agustín Venezia 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 Iquique this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market24 Aug 2026

Guadalajara are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Iquique will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Diego Orellana 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Joaquín Pereyra the difference as Iquique beat Ñublense

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Joaquín Pereyra. 2‑1 against Ñublense, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Pablo Palacio 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.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Brayan Garrido

“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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

No place for Misael Llantén in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Iquique are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Jorge Nunez has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Jorge Nunez on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

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The Iquique Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match12 Aug 2026

Iquique bow out of the cup

Ñublense go through and Iquique go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A one-man rearguard from Zacarías López

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

A cup hiding at Ñublense leaves Iquique explaining themselves

0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Misael Llantén arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Misael Llantén has, at Iquique, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Iquique

Agustín Venezia 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Diego Orellana 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Iquique find a way past Deportes Limache

Deportes Limache made Iquique work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

César González 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Iquique dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

2 Edition

The Iquique Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Aug 2026

Zacarías López keeps Iquique in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market10 Aug 2026

Only the photograph left for Dilan Rojas

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dilan Rojas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Iquique the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Dilan Rojas signs for Deportes La Serena while still at Iquique

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Dilan Rojas has agreed terms with Deportes La Serena for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Iquique

Agustín Venezia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Diego Orellana 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Gonzalo Montecinos joins the Iquique first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gonzalo Montecinos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Carlos Sanchez steps up from the Iquique academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlos Sanchez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Rodrigo Mena joins the Iquique first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rodrigo Mena is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Sebastián Sosa is a square peg at Iquique

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

1 Edition

The Iquique Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match1 Aug 2026

Chastening afternoon for Iquique

A 1‑4 beating by Huachipato was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Juan David Bacca pops up at the right end — 7.21

7.21, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Agustín Venezia signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Venezia commits to Iquique for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Iquique

Agustín Venezia 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Iquique training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Orellana 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 dugout3 Aug 2026

Pablo Palacio 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

200 appearances for Matías Blázquez

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Iquique dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Iquique and Sebastián Sosa

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief