Author: Adam Brandon
Based in Chile, Adam is World Football Index's South American Football Editor, overseeing the output from the most exciting and unpredictable football continent in the world.
Chile 1989 – El Condorazo
By Adam Brandon.
A popular tale always told is how the military instils discipline in people. However, as the dictatorship in Chile revealed, a mil [...]
Copa Libertadores: Santiago Is Cancelled – Next Stop Lima
By Adam Brandon in Santiago, Chile.
One week on from the baffling announcement from the Chilean government that they could still host the Libertado [...]
Santiago Libertadores Final Gets Conmebol Green Light But Chilean Capital Still On Red Alert
By Adam Brandon in Santiago.
When Conmebol elected Santiago as host city for the Copa Libertadores 2019 final, they surely did so safe in the knowl [...]
Colo-Colo vs Universidad de Chile – Previewing El Superclásico Chileno
By Adam Brandon in Santiago, Chile.
At 3pm Saturday local time, the 186th official Superclásico between Colo-Colo and Universidad de Chile will tak [...]
Football Education And Entertainment With Ecuador’s Independiente Del Valle
By Adam Brandon
Independiente del Valle are not just a football club, they are a school.
Those were the words uttered by the co-commentator on t [...]
6 Questions Answered For Chile And Alexis Sanchez At Copa America
Just before kick off last night, WFi’s South American editor Adam Brandon posed 6 questions on Twitter that many Chileans would have been asking ahead [...]
Copa Libertadores In Madrid – The Final Insult
José de San Martín, liberator and national hero of Argentina once said: “You will be what you must be, or else you will be nothing”.
After Conmebol [...]
Chile U20 2-2 Brazil U20 – Four to Fawn Over
Chile 2-2 Brazil - U20 friendly international - by Adam Brandon at the Estadio Santa Laura, Santiago, Chile.
Football fans in the cities of Rancagu [...]
Scolari Wary of Colo-Colo Comeback After Palmeiras Triumph In Copa Libertadores Quarter Final First Leg
In the week that Chile celebrated its 208th year of independence from Spain, the supporters and players of the country’s most successful club anticipa [...]
Women’s Football In South America Triumphs Against Adversity
The first ever South American Women’s Football Players Forum took place last week in Santiago, Chile.
Ex-players and academics were among those who [...]