Juan David Delgado

Striker - Fortaleza CEIF
3 Apr 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Juan David Delgado

27 Edition

The Fortaleza CEIF Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Andrés Arroyo 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 Fortaleza CEIF can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Andrés Arroyo: 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.” Fortaleza CEIF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Cristian Santander

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Fortaleza CEIF may not be able to give Yesid Díaz what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Yesid Díaz wants continental football; whether Fortaleza CEIF can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Cristian Santander 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

Tempers go at Fortaleza CEIF

Miguel Pernía 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.

Market

Jhon Balanta told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jhon Balanta has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Fortaleza CEIF.

The terraces

Fortaleza CEIF supporters have found a favourite in Cristian Santander

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Cristian Santander 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.

Player ratings

Andy Batioja runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Fortaleza CEIF Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Teun Wilke Braams

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fortaleza CEIF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Juan David Delgado asks to leave Fortaleza CEIF

“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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $1.5M sale of Sebastián Navarro

He is going to Santa Fe, the club has $1.5M 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.

Market

Sebastián Navarro moves on

Santa Fe pay $1.5M, 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Fortaleza CEIF

Andrés Arroyo 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.

Market

Business is business: Leonardo Pico goes

Llaneros paid $140.0K and Fortaleza CEIF took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

In brief

4 Edition

The Fortaleza CEIF Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Fortaleza CEIF bow out of the cup

Santa Fe go through and Fortaleza CEIF go home, 0‑1 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 Teun Wilke Braams

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Miguel Silva keeps Fortaleza CEIF in it on his own

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.

In brief