The Deportivo Cali Chronicle
Match19 Aug 2026
Deportivo Cali march on in the cup
Patriotas are out and Deportivo Cali go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Juan Sebastián Ramírez, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.12
A mark of 8.12 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match22 Aug 2026
Deportivo Cali cannot stop winning
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Market24 Aug 2026
Johar Mejía has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Deportivo Cali can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Deportivo Cali training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Reynoso 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Alexis Manyoma
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match22 Aug 2026
Deportivo Cali find a way past Deportivo Pereira
Deportivo Pereira made Deportivo Cali work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Jhon Vásquez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Both jobs done by Joan Gómez — 6.88
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.88, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
In brief
- Player ratings Ronaldo Pájaro was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The dugout A satisfied Carlos Sinisterra
- The dugout Ángelo Rodríguez knocks on the manager’s door