The Deportes Tolima Courier
Market22 Oct 2029
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 ratings22 Oct 2029
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.
Squad22 Oct 2029
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.
Squad22 Oct 2029
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.
Squad22 Oct 2029
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 dugout22 Oct 2029
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.
Match20 Oct 2029
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 ratings22 Oct 2029
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 ratings22 Oct 2029
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
- Squad A muscle injury sidelines Daniel Riascos for 14 days
- Market Jair Collahuazo wants European nights
- The dugout The manager’s verdict