Daniel Riascos

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
25 May 2030
Saturday
Process

Marked for Daniel Riascos

169 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

22 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Edwin Herrera asks to leave Deportes Tolima

“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.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Daniel Riascos delivers — 7.85

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Daniel Riascos scored, was marked 7.85, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Kelvin Flórez

13 goals and a season average of 7.31 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Tolima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yhormar Hurtado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

Andres Medina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yhormar Hurtado

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yhormar Hurtado, and the manager let it.

Match

Bruno Barticciotto sends Deportes Tolima past Leones

It finished 2‑0, and it was Bruno Barticciotto’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Deportes Tolima.

Player ratings

Kelvin Flórez was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.38. 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 ratings

One of those days for Bruno Barticciotto

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

Back issues
154 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Jan Carlos Ángulo out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportes Tolima will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Terms done: Andres Medina is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bogota waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Deportes Tolima is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Juan Esteban García turns Deportivo Cali down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market

Daniel Riascos 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 Deportes Tolima can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Deportes Tolima make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Transfer targets

Wuilker Fariñez is a medical away from Deportes Tolima

The deal with Millonarios is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Envigado tell Deportes Tolima: Jose Romero is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Tolima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yhormar Hurtado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

William Dávila did the work nobody counts — 6.71

13 combined actions and 6.71. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

In brief