Marked for Thomás Amilivia
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Leones
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Leones
Yojhan Sánchez 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.
In brief
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Squad
A row about effort at Leones
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Thomás Amilivia out for 99 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leones will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Leones training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Germán Meneses 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Leones
Jeycob Zabaleta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Thomás Amilivia out for 106 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leones will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Leones out
Out, 0‑2 to Atletico Bucaramanga, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Leones
Germán Meneses 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 dugout17 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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Andres Castillo to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Lora, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
No place in the plan for Nicolás Gil
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 8. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The pass was always on for Óscar Segura
Chances created: 5. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
Market17 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. David García may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 114 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Cristian Lora
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Cristian Lora will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leones the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Cristian Lora has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicolas Herrera has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Johan Montero 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. Jefferson Montero 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.