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Steady
Squad29 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
César Bravo 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.
Market29 Nov 2027
La Equidad have made Juan Martinez available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Market22 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad22 Nov 2027
At 21, Juan Perez is already the best thing here
An average of 7.06 in a first team he is several years too young for. La Equidad have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
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Crisis
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gustavo Sanchez commits to La Equidad for another 4 years.
Match9 Oct 2027
Santa Fe left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of César Bravo
“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.
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Steady
Match4 Sep 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation La Equidad did not have in the autumn.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Belgrano to sit and watch. I want to come back to La Equidad and fight for my place.” 8 appearances in 34 matches say the rest.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. La Equidad have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Squad6 Sep 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Alfredo Palacios knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Keiner Estacio
“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.
Match4 Sep 2027
A 1-1 draw with Deportivo Pereira leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Market30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Juan Perez is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.07 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. La Equidad know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
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Uneasy
Market26 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market26 Jul 2027
The paperwork is done: César Bravo joins from Barranquilla in a deal worth $68.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Market26 Jul 2027
Barranquilla are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. La Equidad will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Loan watch26 Jul 2027
“I did not go to Nagoya Grampus to sit and watch. I want to come back to La Equidad and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 26 matches say the rest.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Martinez commits to La Equidad for another 2 years.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Javier Barrios knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at La Equidad, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Match24 Jul 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Atletico Nacional came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market26 Jul 2027
The window shut and Javier Barrios is still in the building
La Equidad spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.