I remember when my dad told me about how U.Catolica made some great campaigns in the Libertadores/Sudamerica, I even watched the quarter finals against Palmeiras (in which we deserved more tbh…). funnily enough that was the last time a Chilean team made it to the quarter finals of the Libertadores.

nowadays it’s painful to even see these teams play in the local league. it’s all so shit and badly managed in a lot of aspects. clubs doing shady deals with agents, the tournament stopping for months, lack of professionalism on so many things the clubs do. not to mention academy players are treated like shit here, kids debuting professionally when they’re 21/22 y.o. how the fuck are we supposed to compete when we don’t give them time to get experience from early on?

Católica, who used to have a lot of promising academy players making it to the national team and Europe, is wasting so many players to make way for old, washed dudes. it’s infuriating seeing how clubs on Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay and Argentina are coming up with so many great young players and doing a relatively good with incorporating them into their main teams.

Chilean football is not actually real at this point. it’s been so poorly handled since we won those Copa Americas that I don’t really see any bright future for us.

Botafogo gave up a 16 point lead, a streak of like 18 matches unbeaten across all competitions (and I think another streak as locals) and lost 3 key matches back to back (one in a clásico against Vasco). It’s actually maddening how badly they’re fucking up this season

im sure Gremio fans are more than happy with Suarez even if he only played for one season with the team. insane how at his age he’s still such a decisive player that can turn around a match like that

despite not having many clear chances to shoot and the 3-0 loss, Endrick showed again that he’s an incredibly dangerous player for defenders when he’s playing as a 2nd striker. his auto-passing to leave behind rivals, intelligence to find Breno Lopez or win a foul are really interesting

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from proposing mid game to scoring a banger against Brazil, simply Eduard Bello