The Deportivo Cali Chronicle
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Vintage Avilés Hurtado — 8.33
At 39 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.33, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Eduard Bello runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nicolás Benedetti signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicolás Benedetti commits to Deportivo Cali for another 4 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
Johan Martínez 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Deportivo Cali training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Reynoso 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
Avilés Hurtado 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 Deportivo Cali this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
Deportivo Cali supporters have found a favourite in Joan Gómez
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Joan Gómez 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Deportivo Cali see off Aguilas Doradas
Three points for Deportivo Cali, 2‑0 the final word against Aguilas Doradas in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Emanuel Reynoso was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.11. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Squad 17 new faces, and Deportivo Cali are still learning each other
- The dugout A satisfied Rafael Torres
- Market Still no ink between Deportivo Cali and Avilés Hurtado