Marked for David Guerrero
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Jun 2027
Yéiler Góez breaks a bone — 101 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Deportivo Pasto, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Jun 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Andrey Estupiñán 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Deportivo Pasto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Gil 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.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.18 on the card, and the Deportivo Pasto support went home talking about one name.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad3 May 2027
Kevin Cárdenas damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 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.
Squad3 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pasto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 May 2027
Nicolás Gil 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 terraces3 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mayer Gil 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.
Match1 May 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mayer Gil. 1‑0 against La Equidad, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings3 May 2027
One of those days for Mayer Gil
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad3 May 2027
41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings3 May 2027
10 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Fáiner Torijano out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Pasto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Andrey Estupiñán 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.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Fáiner Torijano out for 82 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Pasto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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 Deportivo Pasto can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Andrey Estupiñán 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Sebastián Hurtado has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Deportivo Pasto have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Deportivo Pasto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Gil 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Geovanni Banguera has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Pasto will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Fáiner Torijano out for 89 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Pasto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
Supporters turn on the $410.0K sale of Jacobo Martínez
He is going to Cortulua, the club has $410.0K 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Deportivo Pasto have had the benefit of it.
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer from Universitario Popayan for David Guerrero 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Jacobo Martínez has left for Cortulua in a $410.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Steven Hernández and Deportivo Pasto agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Patrick Preciado damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Nicolás Gil wants continental football; whether Deportivo Pasto can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Deimer Longas has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Deportivo Pasto have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market14 Dec 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Deportivo Pasto have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Harrinson Mancilla 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
118 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Deportivo Pasto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Gil 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Deportivo Pasto have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pasto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
7.21, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Deportivo Pasto had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Market10 Aug 2026
David Guerrero is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Deportivo Pasto has been clear about where David Guerrero stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Enrique Serje dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.