Marked for Marcus Vinicius
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
Eber Moreno has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Deportivo Pereira they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportivo Pereira may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Marcus Vinicius 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 dugout9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Giancarlo García and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Steven Hernández and Deportivo Pereira agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
When it matters, Yimy Gómez 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market2 Nov 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 The request is on a desk at Deportivo Pereira, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcus Vinicius was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Millonarios, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Yimy Gómez
“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 dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Fernando Rios left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alejandro Piedrahita trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Yimy Gómez has moved up it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.77 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match24 Oct 2026
9 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Deportes Tolima were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Market26 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marcus Vinicius. 2‑1 against Deportes Tolima, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad26 Oct 2026
13 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Fernando Rios could afford to be generous.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jorge Bermúdez, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Deportivo Pereira's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Deportivo Pereira has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportivo Pereira may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market19 Oct 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Deportivo Pereira can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Santiago Mosquera is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcus Vinicius was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Fabio Delgado
7.85, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Deportivo Pereira had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobías Torrielli and Deportivo Pereira agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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 not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Deportivo Pereira told Richard Rentería something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportivo Pereira is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportivo Pereira may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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
Marcus Vinicius 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
When it matters, Yimy Gómez 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Edinson Largacha trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clock does Eber Moreno’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Deportivo Pereira could ask drops and the wages Eber Moreno can ask rise.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Deportivo Pereira's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Deportivo Pereira has to find a result from somewhere.
Market28 Sep 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcus Vinicius was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eber Moreno, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
12 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Santiago Mosquera 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
Half-satisfied: Fernando Rios on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Alianza Petrolera came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Chances created: 9. The column nobody reads carried the whole story of the match, and his name was at the top of it.
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Uneasy
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Anderson Plata has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Jaguares in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Deportivo Pereira are no longer polite ones.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market31 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Deportivo Pereira can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Eber Moreno
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
11 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 manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Fernando Rios left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout31 Aug 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 Deportivo Pereira, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
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.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Alejandro Piedrahita, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match1 Aug 2026
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market3 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Deportivo Pereira can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Walmer Pacheco and Deportivo Pereira agree another 3 years.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.76, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Alejandro Piedrahita 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Deportivo Pereira training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Vinicius 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and Deportivo Pereira are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Fernando Rios on a 5‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.