Manuel Rodríguez

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Millonarios
23 Mar 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Manuel Rodríguez

31 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Rodrigo Cavalcante runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Cup progress for Millonarios

A 4‑0 win over Universitario Popayan, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Mateo García 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

3 goals for Jorge Cabezas Hurtado

The match ball belongs to Jorge Cabezas Hurtado, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

Alex Moreno Paz shuts the door

Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Mateo García 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

One of those days for Jorge Cabezas Hurtado

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.68, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

One of those days for Manuel Rodríguez

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Diego Novoa

“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.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Manuel Rodríguez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Mateo García 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 148% of everything Millonarios earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

4 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Millonarios

1‑2 against Leones, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

Santiago Giordana runs at them all day

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Mateo García 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

Millonarios come up short against Deportes Tolima

Deportes Tolima left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Radamel Falcao 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.

Player ratings

Manuel Rodríguez in the eights

A performance of 8.60 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Rodrigo Contreras leaves them behind him

Shots: 16. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Millonarios

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 terraces

The spotlight tightens on Diego Novoa

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief