Elkin Rivero

Defensive Midfielder - Atletico Nacional U20
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Elkin Rivero

19 Edition

The Atletico Nacional Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: César Haydar out for 44 days

44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Atletico Nacional lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Jorman Campuzano 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 Atletico Nacional can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Atletico Nacional turn down Junior for Jorman Campuzano

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Atletico Nacional bid $890.0K for Diego Moreno

The offer went to Independiente Medellin this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Atletico Nacional make their move for Richardson Rivas

$700.0K on the table at Fortaleza CEIF. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom

Atletico Nacional go back to the board over Richardson Rivas

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $750.0K — a club that wants Richardson Rivas enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

An offer of $540.0K for Eber Moreno

Atletico Nacional have gone to Deportivo Pereira with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Atletico Nacional baulk at the price for Iván Scarpeta

Santa Fe wanted more than $890.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market

Trujillanos join the queue for Ronaldo Lucena

Add another name to the list: Trujillanos have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ronaldo Lucena. The answer from Atletico Nacional has not changed — yet.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Atletico Nacional Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

César Haydar damages knee ligaments — 96 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 96 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.

Market

Simón García asks to leave Atletico Nacional

“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.

Squad

Words at Atletico Nacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Torres 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 dugout

A promise honoured for Mateus Uribe

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Atletico Nacional told Mateus Uribe something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Elkin Rivero 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 Atletico Nacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Atletico Nacional

15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

11 Edition

The Atletico Nacional Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

César Haydar damages knee ligaments — 113 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 113 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.

Player ratings

Mateus Uribe, 35, rolls back the years — 8.07

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.07 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Boardroom

Cristian Uribe signs for Union Magdalena while still at Atletico Nacional

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Cristian Uribe has agreed terms with Union Magdalena for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A move Kevin De La Hoz would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kevin De La Hoz is living that version at Atletico Nacional, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

Mateus Uribe sends Atletico Nacional past Atletico Bucaramanga

It finished 2‑1, and it was Mateus Uribe’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Atletico Nacional.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Cristian Arango at his very best

Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Atletico Nacional.

Squad

Words exchanged at Atletico Nacional

Elkin Rivero and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Kevin De La Hoz signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kevin De La Hoz and Atletico Nacional agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Marlos Moreno 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Atletico Nacional Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

6 goals for Cristian Arango

The match ball belongs to Cristian Arango, whose 6 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

César Haydar damages knee ligaments — 121 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 121 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.

Match

Atletico Nacional tear Alianza Petrolera apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Alianza Petrolera, and it could have been more.

Match

The small margins put Atletico Nacional out

Out, 3‑3 to Atletico Bucaramanga, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Atletico Nacional

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Atletico Bucaramanga kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Atletico Nacional will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Market

Alfredo Morelos wants European nights

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.

Match

6 goals as Atletico Nacional and Alianza Petrolera go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Atletico Nacional and Alianza Petrolera, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

Nobody wins at Atletico Nacional

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

The terraces

Atletico Nacional supporters have found a favourite in Elías Cabrera

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Elías Cabrera 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Atletico Nacional Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for Atletico Nacional

A 2‑0 win over Valledupar, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Boardroom

Atletico Nacional to lose Juan José Rosa for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Juan José Rosa has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Juan Manuel Guerrero signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Manuel Guerrero commits to Atletico Nacional for another 4 years.

Squad

Words at Atletico Nacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Manuel Guerrero 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 terraces

One of their own: Edwin Echeverría

He is 17 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Ronaldo Lucena at his very best

Marked 8.14. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Atletico Nacional.

Player ratings

Elías Cabrera was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Atletico Nacional

Elkin Rivero and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

Ivan Giraldo on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ivan Giraldo after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief