Vitor André

Defensive Midfielder - Real Cartagena
21 Feb 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Vitor André

142 Edition

The Real Cartagena Sentinel

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Camilo Nieva hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Real Cartagena can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Jesús Mejía is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Real Cartagena is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andy Batioja

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Juan David Rodríguez 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 Real Cartagena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

One of those days for Jairo Ditta

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mauro Ortiz

“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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Sebastián Urrea

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.46, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Sebastián Urrea rescues a point for Real Cartagena

It needed Sebastián Urrea to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Junior, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Jairo Ditta is carrying Real Cartagena

5 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

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The Real Cartagena Sentinel

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Juan Daniel Espitia keeps Real Cartagena in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Víctor Cabezas asks to leave Real Cartagena

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Jesús Mejía: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Real Cartagena have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Real Cartagena lose Cristian Peñate

65 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Whatever happens, Real Cartagena do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Tempers go at Real Cartagena

Juan David Rodríguez 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Jairo Ditta

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.67, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Jairo Ditta sends Real Cartagena past Atletico Nacional

It finished 2‑1, and it was Jairo Ditta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Real Cartagena.

Player ratings

One of those days for Gonzalo Córdoba

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

110 Edition

The Teplice Post

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

José Luis Palomino hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Teplice can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Teplice count the cost of losing Denis Donát

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

José Luis Palomino 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Sigma Olomouc take the points off Teplice

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jaroslav Harušťák

“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.

Player ratings

Denis Donát in the eights

A performance of 8.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Matyáš Kozák

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Johan Portilla lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Market

The Jakub Pokorný talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Teplice know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief