Marked for Mateo Parra
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match21 Jun 2027
The season ends: position 8 for Tigres
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 26 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Market21 Jun 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Tigres
Aldo Montes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Tigres asked and Once Caldas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 61 days on the sidelines for Kevin Mosquera, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Jesús Cano 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.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Andrés Cuadros will call it something else in private.
Loan watch21 Jun 2027
The goals keep arriving from Jorge Rivaldo’s exile
9 goals in 22 games at Aguilas Doradas — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Tigres updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.13 on the card, and the Tigres support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Squad10 May 2027
Junior Martínez damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Marked 7.99 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 May 2027
Tempers go at Tigres
Aldo Montes 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.
Match8 May 2027
Valledupar made Tigres work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces10 May 2027
At 21 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.
Squad10 May 2027
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesús Cano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match8 May 2027
Tigres hit back inside 2 minutes
Valledupar held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Tigres answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
The dugout10 May 2027
“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.
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Crisis
Squad3 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Junior Martínez
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tigres lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 May 2027
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match3 May 2027
Tigres sink to position 10
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad3 May 2027
Words exchanged at Tigres
Aldo Montes and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match1 May 2027
Fortaleza CEIF left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Cano 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout3 May 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Leonardo Gonzalez after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout3 May 2027
“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.
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Crisis
Squad5 Apr 2027
Junior Martínez damages knee ligaments — 55 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 55 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match3 Apr 2027
Chastening afternoon for Tigres
A 0‑3 beating by Barranquilla was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match5 Apr 2027
Every point is an argument now for Tigres
Position 10 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Tigres
Aldo Montes 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
The goals have deserted Tigres
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Tigres can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Aldo Montes 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.
Match5 Apr 2027
Tigres at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 10, 10 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Doors closed at Tigres
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Junior Martínez
79 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tigres lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Up for the corner, and Omar Preciado delivers — 7.84
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Omar Preciado scored, was marked 7.84, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Tigres
Aldo Montes and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match13 Mar 2027
Tigres get the job done against Leones
A 2‑1 win over Leones, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesús Cano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Leonardo Gonzalez kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Looking ahead15 Mar 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Llaneros in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Tigres have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Junior Martínez
94 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tigres lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match24 Feb 2027
The cup run ends for Tigres
0‑2 against Once Caldas, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match27 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Tigres's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tigres has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Mateo Parra beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Aldo Montes 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 Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Jesús Cano 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.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Marked 7.24 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Tigres had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jeisson Castro, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Aldo Montes knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aldo Montes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Squad1 Feb 2027
Junior Martínez damages knee ligaments — 122 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 122 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Andrés Cuadros pops up at the right end — 7.77
7.77, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Aldo Montes 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 Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Jan 2027
Andrés Cuadros scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Bogota, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesús Cano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Leonardo Gonzalez after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Market1 Feb 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jeisson Castro has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tigres.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miguel Álvarez, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
Tigres say no — this time
The offer from America de Cali for Nicolás Lara was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Aldo Montes 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 Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Cano 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Orles Aragón is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Tigres has been clear about where Orles Aragón stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market7 Dec 2026
Aldo Montes linked with a move away
The name of Aldo Montes keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tigres say nothing, which says plenty.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
Open for business: Tigres enter the window
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Tigres
Nicolás Lara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesús Cano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market12 Oct 2026
Aldo Montes linked with a move away
The name of Aldo Montes keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tigres say nothing, which says plenty.