Luis Yanes

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Real Cartagena U20
15 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Luis Yanes

42 Edition

The Real Cartagena Sentinel

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Juan David Rodríguez 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.

Match

Luis Yanes’s goal not enough for Real Cartagena

Luis Yanes scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Atletico Bucaramanga, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Ronaldo Lora 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.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

Mauro Manotas runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Juan Sebastián Herrera knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Real Cartagena, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
41 Edition

The Real Cartagena Sentinel

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Real Cartagena through in the cup

A 2‑0 win over Envigado, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Real Cartagena are in real trouble now

Position 18, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Player ratings

Jairo Ditta runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Jaider Pérez at 20 — 7.62

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jaider Pérez did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Real Cartagena

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Juan David Rodríguez

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

One of those days for Joiner Moreno

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.72, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

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.

In brief