Marked for Tilman Palacios
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. America de Cali lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what America de Cali can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Dec 2026
Tigres come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and America de Cali did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market28 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Cristian Berrio will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around America de Cali the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. America de Cali have done the hard part with Penarol, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Luis Quiñones and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market28 Dec 2026
Millonarios pay $500.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
America de Cali asked and Atlas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Valencia, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stiven Palomeque
66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. America de Cali lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. America de Cali have done the hard part with Junior, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Real Cartagena; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
America de Cali asked and Cortulua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Bogota wanted more than $230.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yojan Garcés and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“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 dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Luis Quiñones'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.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
135 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. America de Cali lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.11 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around America de Cali they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match3 Oct 2026
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at America de Cali training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Vargas 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nicolás Soto 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 America de Cali this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at America de Cali
20 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Luis Quiñones asks for a word with the manager
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The dugout
The form table has caught Daniel Valencia
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
143 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. America de Cali lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market28 Sep 2026
“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.
Match26 Sep 2026
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match26 Sep 2026
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Yojan Garcés 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Omar Bertel
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Javier Cuadrado was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the America de Cali dressing room was either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at America de Cali training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marlon García 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.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
A 3‑0 win over Universitario Popayan, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Tilman Palacios, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.22
A mark of 8.22 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Luis Quiñones, 35, rolls back the years — 8.03
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.03 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match15 Aug 2026
2‑3 to La Equidad, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Enzo Larrosa has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means America de Cali have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Jean 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 terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Tomás Ángel has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.