From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Felipe Mora is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.49 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market23 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.90, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match21 Aug 2027
Whatever happens, San Luis do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad23 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Aug 2027
A 2‑1 win over Santiago Wanderers, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Cristian González 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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Arturo Jara could afford to be generous.
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Uneasy
Market16 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Felipe Mora is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.45 with 20 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.14, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Ignacio Ponce: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” San Luis have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match14 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten San Luis
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Vicente Durán 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 ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Ignacio Meza
“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
Market9 Aug 2027
Vicente Reyes hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Luis can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Felipe Mora is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.43 with 19 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Santiago Scian gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Santiago Scian has just signed for San Luis, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Age has not caught Felipe Mora yet — 8.22
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.22 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
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Market9 Aug 2027
Martin Carreño has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vicente Durán and San Luis agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match7 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten San Luis
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at San Luis
Facundo Juárez 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.83 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad2 Aug 2027
18 goals and a season average of 7.40. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at San Luis
Sergio Vergara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match31 Jul 2027
Whatever happens, San Luis do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lazio have kept their man, and San Luis go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match31 Jul 2027
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
When it matters, Felipe Mora plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match24 Jul 2027
The drought breaks for San Luis
9 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Union La Calera were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
San Luis close the window on a squad of their own making
2 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Cristian González 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
San Luis asked and Bayer Leverkusen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match24 Jul 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Sebastián Parada’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to San Luis.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
The team sheet said everything about Cristian González
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Cristian González.
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Uneasy
Match17 Jul 2027
No end in sight to San Luis's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Luis has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Jul 2027
San Luis cannot find the net
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristian González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A loan move for Franco Carboni is in the works
San Luis have made the call to Inter. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Arturo Jara after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Uneasy
Match10 Jul 2027
8 matches without a win for San Luis
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around San Luis are no longer polite ones.
Market12 Jul 2027
Martin Carreño has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match10 Jul 2027
San Luis cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at San Luis
Sergio Vergara 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristian González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
San Luis asked and Venezia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces12 Jul 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian González, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
A loan move for Noah Mbamba is in the works
San Luis have made the call to Bayer Leverkusen. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Uneasy
Market5 Jul 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at San Luis, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match3 Jul 2027
No end in sight to San Luis's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Luis has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
$230.0K settles it between the clubs for Joaquín Fernández
Universidad de Chile have accepted the money. What San Luis do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Felipe Mora is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.37 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match3 Jul 2027
4 matches without a goal for San Luis
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at San Luis
Cristian González 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Juárez 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.
Loan watch5 Jul 2027
“I did not go to Plaza Colonia to sit and watch. I want to come back to San Luis and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Market28 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sebastián Parada will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Luis the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match26 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for San Luis
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad28 Jun 2027
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johan Caicedo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Jun 2027
3 matches without a goal for San Luis
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Felipe Mora gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Felipe Mora is on it.
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Crisis
Match21 Jun 2027
San Luis are in real trouble now
Position 14, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market21 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match19 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for San Luis
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A falling-out at San Luis
Johan Caicedo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match19 Jun 2027
0‑1 to San Marcos de Arica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Arturo Jara to a room that had heard them before.
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Crisis
Market14 Jun 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around San Luis people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market14 Jun 2027
Mauro Iturra hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Luis can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Luis is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match12 Jun 2027
No end in sight to San Luis's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Luis has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at San Luis
Sergio Vergara 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johan Caicedo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
San Luis asked and Monza said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Jun 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rodrigo Valencia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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The dugout
Joel Torres gets it from the manager
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Andrej Vasović is in the works
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Crisis
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Luis can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Felipe Mora, 33, rolls back the years — 8.21
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.21 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad7 Jun 2027
16 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market7 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. San Luis have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A falling-out at San Luis
Facundo Juárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match5 Jun 2027
2‑3 to Cobresal, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johan Caicedo 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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
San Luis asked and Venezia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vicente Reyes, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Match29 May 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Colo-Colo, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad31 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at San Luis
Johan Caicedo 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Juárez 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.
Boardroom31 May 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout31 May 2027
Vicente Durán is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout31 May 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings31 May 2027
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at San Luis, and it is a cruel one.
The dugout31 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad24 May 2027
There were 6 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Sergio Vergara 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Johan Caicedo 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 May 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout24 May 2027
“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.
Match24 May 2027
San Luis at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 11, 16 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout24 May 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Arturo Jara after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout24 May 2027
Felipe Mora has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Luis 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.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Felipe Mora beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
Match15 May 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Huachipato, and it could have been more.
Player ratings17 May 2027
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 9.92, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad17 May 2027
Felipe Mora takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
The dugout17 May 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” San Luis have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad17 May 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.
Market17 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Martin Carreño
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martin Carreño will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Luis the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad17 May 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Felipe Mora
15 goals and a season average of 7.36 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad17 May 2027
Words exchanged at San Luis
Facundo Juárez 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 terraces17 May 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Luis can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad10 May 2027
Johan Caicedo 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.
Squad10 May 2027
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Juárez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 May 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Felipe Mora
12 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match8 May 2027
Late, late show earns San Luis a point
Minute 87, against Santiago Wanderers, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Match8 May 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout10 May 2027
Vicente Durán has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Luis 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.
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Crisis
Squad3 May 2027
15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Luis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad3 May 2027
A fracture rules Guillermo Avello out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Luis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johan Caicedo 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.
Match1 May 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at San Luis, and 5 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vicente Reyes, and the manager let it.
Match1 May 2027
San Luis hit back inside 3 minutes
Palestino held the lead for 3 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. San Luis answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
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Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
Felipe Mora takes the match ball home
5 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad26 Apr 2027
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Luis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match24 Apr 2027
Iquique will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑2, every duel lost, and a long ride home. San Luis were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Guillermo Avello out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Luis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 10.00, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between San Luis and Iquique, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Joel Torres
“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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 5‑2, Arturo Jara could afford to be generous.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
Cristian González damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Apr 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Antofagasta, and it could have been more.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
A brace, and Johan Caicedo takes the afternoon — 8.39
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Johan Caicedo provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Age has not caught Sergio Vergara yet — 8.31
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.31 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market19 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Martin Carreño
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martin Carreño will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Luis the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match17 Apr 2027
At last: San Luis win one
7 matches without a win, and then this, against Antofagasta. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A falling-out at San Luis
Johan Caicedo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Juárez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Squad12 Apr 2027
Cristian González damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad12 Apr 2027
38 days out for Guillermo Avello after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. San Luis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match12 Apr 2027
San Luis are in real trouble now
Position 15, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market12 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Luis can pretend not to have heard.
Match10 Apr 2027
No end in sight to San Luis's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Luis has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad12 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Apr 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rodrigo Sanchez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Apr 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gary Meneses 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.
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Crisis
Squad5 Apr 2027
46 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Luis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match3 Apr 2027
6 matches without a win for San Luis
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around San Luis are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.23, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Vicente Reyes is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A falling-out at San Luis
Facundo Juárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Apr 2027
O'Higgins left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Vicente Durán
“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.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
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 Arturo Jara to a room that had heard them before.
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Crisis
Squad29 Mar 2027
Cristian González damages knee ligaments — 53 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 53 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match27 Mar 2027
No end in sight to San Luis's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Luis has to find a result from somewhere.
Match27 Mar 2027
San Luis cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad29 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Juárez 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Arturo Jara after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
When it matters, Felipe Mora plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Squad22 Mar 2027
Cristian González damages knee ligaments — 62 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 62 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Mar 2027
Colo-Colo ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market22 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Martin Carreño
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martin Carreño will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Luis the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match20 Mar 2027
No end in sight to San Luis's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Luis has to find a result from somewhere.
Match20 Mar 2027
San Luis cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Player ratings
Mauro Iturra beats them one at a time
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Ignacio Meza
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
62 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Luis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Guillermo Avello out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Luis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Johan Caicedo 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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Daniel Monardes
“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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Vicente Durán gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vicente Durán is on it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Arturo Jara after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match13 Mar 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Audax Italiano came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
Eduardo Nunez damages knee ligaments — 70 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 70 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Guillermo Avello out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Luis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad8 Mar 2027
There were 6 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Felipe Mora and San Luis agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market8 Mar 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pablo Valencia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Diaz 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Mar 2027
77 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Luis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match27 Feb 2027
At last: San Luis win one
12 matches without a win, and then this, against Universidad de Concepcion. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vicente Durán 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
A 2‑0 win over Universidad de Concepcion, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Joel Torres 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Felipe Mora has become a man the manager trusts
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Looking ahead
A reunion for Ignacio Meza
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Eduardo Nunez
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Luis lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match20 Feb 2027
No end in sight to San Luis's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Luis has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match20 Feb 2027
A 3-goal lead gone for San Luis
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Cobresal kept coming because nothing stopped them, and San Luis will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
A brace, and Felipe Mora takes the afternoon — 9.07
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Felipe Mora provided it, and the 9.07 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market22 Feb 2027
Martin Carreño has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joel Torres and San Luis agree another 3 years.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of Sebastián Parada at his very best
Marked 8.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at San Luis.
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Crisis
Squad15 Feb 2027
91 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Luis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match13 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for San Luis
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad15 Feb 2027
97 days out for Guillermo Avello after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. San Luis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at San Luis
Johan Caicedo 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about San Luis and Colo-Colo in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match13 Feb 2027
Colo-Colo left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
107 days out for Guillermo Avello after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. San Luis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at San Luis
Facundo Juárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vicente Durán 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
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Guillermo Avello out for 116 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Luis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” San Luis may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at San Luis
Facundo Juárez 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vicente Durán 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián Parada, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
Martin Carreño has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastián Parada 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.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Facundo Juárez 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Facundo Juárez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Luis 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Gonzalo Bustos's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nicolás Muñoz 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 San Luis, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
Franco Cortés hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Luis can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at San Luis
Facundo Juárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vicente Durán 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Riquelme has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Johan Caicedo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Luis 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
Martin Carreño 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 San Luis, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at San Luis, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Diego González has come up in conversations San Luis were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Venezia is saying, and nobody at San Luis is enjoying the guessing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at San Luis
Facundo Juárez 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Santos have kept their man, and San Luis go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Vicente Durán has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Luis 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
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Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at San Luis, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Dec 2026
Martin Carreño has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Sergio Vergara 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Juárez 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.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Ignacio Meza 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.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
San Luis have made the call to Lecce. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Felipe Mora gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Felipe Mora is on it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at San Luis, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Vicente Reyes is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Dec 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 San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Vicente Durán 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.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Venezia have kept their man, and San Luis go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Venezia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A loan move for Keita Baldé is in the works
San Luis have made the call to Monza. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Martin Carreño
“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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Facundo Juárez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Luis 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Gonzalo Bustos's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
There were 21 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.
Match11 Dec 2026
10 matches without a win for San Luis
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around San Luis are no longer polite ones.
Match11 Dec 2026
A European lesson for San Luis
2‑3 against Estudiantes. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Felipe Mora, 33, rolls back the years — 8.32
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.32 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
$39.0K settles it between the clubs for Joaquín Tapia
O'Higgins have accepted the money. What San Luis do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at San Luis
Facundo Juárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
$54.0K on the table at Union Espanola. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Miguel Toledo 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. Miguel Toledo has, at San Luis, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around San Luis people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market7 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at San Luis
Sergio Vergara 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Juárez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Monardes commits to San Luis for another 3 years.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Santos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
River Plate have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market7 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nicolás Muñoz has his answer from San Luis; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Crisis
Match27 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for San Luis
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match27 Nov 2026
A European lesson for San Luis
0‑1 against Juventud. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Squad30 Nov 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nicolás Muñoz: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” San Luis have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Facundo Juárez 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vicente Durán 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Gonzalo Bustos will call it something else in private.
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Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Nov 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 San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sebastián Parada commits to San Luis for another 4 years.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Meza, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Muñoz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at San Luis
Sergio Vergara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Juárez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Facundo Juárez is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Gonzalo Bustos is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Hormazábal, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 13 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.
Match6 Nov 2026
A European night to forget for San Luis
1‑6. Vasco da Gama play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.
Match6 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for San Luis
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Johan Caicedo pops up at the right end — 7.87
7.87, 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at San Luis
Facundo Juárez 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.
Match6 Nov 2026
San Luis leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vicente Durán 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mauricio Sierralta is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” San Luis may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexis Diaz and San Luis agree another 3 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Facundo Juárez 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Felipe Mora gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Felipe Mora is on it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Muñoz 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Alexis Diaz knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexis Diaz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Gael Acosta 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at San Luis, another week without a signature from Daniel Monardes.
Market2 Nov 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what San Luis could get for him.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 13 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match23 Oct 2026
San Luis come up short in Europe
0‑2 away to the standard of Vasco da Gama. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Match23 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for San Luis
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around San Luis are no longer polite ones.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” San Luis may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Luis is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 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 San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Juárez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match23 Oct 2026
San Luis are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Vicente Reyes has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Monardes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Luis the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at San Luis
Facundo Juárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego González 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Martin Carreño
“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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at San Luis
Facundo Juárez 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Osorio is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlos Maripan 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Vicente Reyes has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Luis 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.
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Crisis
Match2 Oct 2026
San Luis come up short in Europe
1‑2 away to the standard of Estudiantes. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match2 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for San Luis
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.98, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sergio Vergara 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Facundo Juárez 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Felipe Mora gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Felipe Mora is on it.
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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Luis they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Sep 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 San Luis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vicente Durán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at San Luis
15 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Vicente Durán gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vicente Durán is on it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Daniel Monardes asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match18 Sep 2026
San Luis come up short in Europe
0‑2 away to the standard of Juventud. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Monardes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Luis the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match18 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for San Luis
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around San Luis are no longer polite ones.
Match18 Sep 2026
5 matches without a goal for San Luis
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at San Luis
Facundo Juárez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Arturo Jara after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ignacio Meza left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Ignacio Meza will call it something else in private.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Carreño, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Match9 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for San Luis
0‑2 against Palestino, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Match9 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for San Luis
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match9 Sep 2026
The goals have deserted San Luis
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at San Luis can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at San Luis
Vicente Reyes 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johan Caicedo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gary Isla has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristian Riquelme has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for Sebastián Parada
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Sergio Vergara's mistake
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at San Luis
Johan Caicedo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Vicente Durán 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for San Luis
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match5 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Universidad Catolica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Ignacio Meza 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Sep 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Arturo Jara to a room that had heard them before.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Fernando Abarzúa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Luis the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Cristian González 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Huachipato left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gonzalo Bustos, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at San Luis
15 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.
The dugout31 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Arturo Jara to a room that had heard them before.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Muñoz 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
Vicente Durán gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vicente Durán is on it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
San Luis march on in the cup
Universidad Catolica are out and San Luis go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and San Luis did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at San Luis
Sergio Vergara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten San Luis
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristian González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.95, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexis Diaz commits to San Luis for another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Facundo Juárez is on it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Aug 2026
San Luis march on in the cup
Colo-Colo are out and San Luis go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at San Luis
Cristian González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at San Luis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vicente Durán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at San Luis, another week without a signature from Vicente Reyes.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Vicente Reyes gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vicente Reyes is on it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Arturo Jara after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Iquique, and it could have been more.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.59 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Fernando Abarzúa has agreed terms with Iquique for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Cristian González 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gary Aranguiz 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matias Bravo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sebastian Suazo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erick Osorio is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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Player ratings
A masterclass from Diego González
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
A row about effort at San Luis
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.88, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Luis is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Felipe Mora and San Luis agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sergio Vergara 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
Words at San Luis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian González 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Felipe Mora. 1‑0 against Antofagasta, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at San Luis
14 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.