Omar Robles

Goalkeeper - Real Cartagena
3 Dec 2028
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108 Edition

The Real Cartagena Sentinel

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces21 Aug 2028

Anger at Real Cartagena spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market21 Aug 2028

Edmilson Herazo 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.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Álex Guti: 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.

Squad21 Aug 2028

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.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Aldair Arnedo 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.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Didier Pino 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.

Match19 Aug 2028

Real Cartagena draw a blank against Independiente Medellin

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Independiente Medellin defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

Nobody could get near Álvaro Meléndez

Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market21 Aug 2028

The Leonardo Vides story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Leonardo Vides signs something — a contract at Real Cartagena or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

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76 Edition

The Real Cartagena Sentinel

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Jan 2028

Álex Guti breaks a bone — 137 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 137 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad10 Jan 2028

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.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Aldair Arnedo 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.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Jorge Rivaldo 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.

Market10 Jan 2028

Albion are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Real Cartagena will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market10 Jan 2028

Jaen Pineda linked with a move away

The name of Jaen Pineda keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Real Cartagena say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

53 Edition

The Real Cartagena Sentinel

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

Real Cartagena spell it out for Hector Valencia

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Hector Valencia has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

The scrutiny sharpens at Real Cartagena

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Real Cartagena is running low.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Real Cartagena

Fredy Montero 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Cristian Flórez 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Didier Pino 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.

Player ratings2 Aug 2027

Toni Villa takes the honours

Marked 7.80 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Real Cartagena had the best player on the pitch.

Squad2 Aug 2027

A place in the month's best eleven for Leonardo Vides

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Leonardo Vides has come out of that comparison in the side, and Real Cartagena have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Match31 Jul 2027

Real Cartagena and Envigado take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

Real Cartagena pull $834.7K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

In brief

25 Edition

The Real Cartagena Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad18 Jan 2027

Fredy Montero 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Words at Real Cartagena training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Didier Pino 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

When it matters, Joiner Moreno 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

23 Edition

The Real Cartagena Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market4 Jan 2027

Real Cartagena sell their best player to Atletico Nacional

$2.3M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Market4 Jan 2027

Carlos De Las Salas 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.

The terraces4 Jan 2027

Supporters turn on the $2.3M sale of Edison López

He is going to Atletico Nacional, the club has $2.3M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Fredy Montero 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Real improvement from Omar Robles at Real Cartagena

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Omar Robles is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words at Real Cartagena training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hugo Fisher 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.

In brief