Brayan Gómez

Central Midfielder - Once Caldas
20 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Brayan Gómez

15 Edition

The Once Caldas Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Michael Barrios out for 55 days

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

The dugout

Juan David Cuesta says Once Caldas went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Once Caldas

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

Squad

Jáder Quiñónes 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.

Market

The Jefry Zapata talk will not go away

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

The dugout

Juan Felipe Castaño has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Once Caldas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Once Caldas Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Michael Barrios breaks a bone — 62 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Daniel Londoño 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 Once Caldas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Once Caldas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Zuleta 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.

The dugout

Once Caldas keep their word to Daniel Londoño

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.

Squad

Brayan Gómez is a square peg at Once Caldas

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

When it matters, Juan Pablo Patiño 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.

In brief

13 Edition

The Once Caldas Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

70 days out for Michael Barrios after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Once Caldas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

A falling-out at Once Caldas

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

Squad

Daniel Londoño 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.

Squad

Felipe Cifuentes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Felipe Cifuentes and Once Caldas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Pablo Rojas gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

When it matters, Jáder Quiñónes 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.

In brief