Marked for Juan José Ramírez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Geovan Montes
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Juan José Ramírez has moved up it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Kevin Caicedo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Llaneros
A 2‑2 win over America de Cali, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Roameth Romaña: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.84, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match19 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Llaneros a point
Minute 105, against America de Cali, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.84. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Daniel Mina chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Llaneros have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.