Iván Camacho

Defensive Midfielder - Patriotas
14 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Iván Camacho

5 Edition

The Patriotas Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Sebastián Moreno breaks a bone — 45 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Carlos Copete runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Kevin Álvarez, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.98

A mark of 7.98 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Patriotas

Brayan Fernández 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.

Match

Michael Nike the difference as Patriotas beat La Equidad

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Michael Nike. 2‑1 against La Equidad, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Johan Campaña

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Iván Camacho dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad

Michael Nike finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Patriotas have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Player ratings

Johan Campaña ran the game

Chances created: 7. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Patriotas Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastián Moreno out for 60 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Patriotas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Patriotas bow out of the cup

Union Magdalena go through and Patriotas go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near José Móntes

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

4 matches without a win for Patriotas

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Patriotas are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Patriotas

Brayan Fernández 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.

Match

Junior take the points off Patriotas

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Patriotas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Esteven Salguero 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Iván Camacho

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

Player ratings

Off the bench and decisive: Jonnier Torres

The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Patriotas were going nowhere until he came on.

In brief

2 Edition

The Patriotas Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Juan Sebastián Sarmiento scores twice — 7.90

Two goals and a mark of 7.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Tempers go at Patriotas

Brayan Fernández 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kevin Salazar

“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.

Market

48 months and counting on Michael Nike

Still no offer on the table, and Michael Nike’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Match

Patriotas share the spoils with Deportivo Cali

A 2‑2 draw with Deportivo Cali leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings

Esteven Salguero runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Iván Camacho gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Patriotas lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Iván Camacho's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

Juan Sebastián Sarmiento is the weekend's best young player

At 20 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.

In brief