Joider Micolta

Attacking Midfielder (R) - America de Cali
23 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Joider Micolta

4 Edition

The America de Cali Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

America de Cali march on in the cup

Patriotas are out and America de Cali go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

America de Cali run riot against Alianza Petrolera

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

A brace, and Yojan Garcés takes the afternoon — 9.06

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yojan Garcés provided it, and the 9.06 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Both of them Joider Micolta's — 8.38

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.38, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

José Cavadia, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.10

A mark of 8.10 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Rafael Carrascal, 33, rolls back the years — 8.05

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.05 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Transfer targets

Juan Camilo Arturo turns down America de Cali

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Jean in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at America de Cali this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Jhon Murillo wants European nights

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.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The America de Cali Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jean keeps America de Cali in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Daniel Valencia stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Valencia and America de Cali agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at America de Cali

Jean and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

America de Cali may not be able to give Josen Escobar what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Josen Escobar wants continental football; whether America de Cali can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Daniel Valencia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Valencia, and the manager let it.

Market

One of our own: Alejandro Diaz joins the America de Cali first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alejandro Diaz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

America de Cali promote Johan Cuadrado from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Johan Cuadrado 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.

Market

One of our own: Fabian Falcao joins the America de Cali first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fabian Falcao is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Joider Micolta 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.

In brief