Marked for Carlos Úsuga
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
17 days out for Carlos Úsuga after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Envigado will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Envigado
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Envigado training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yeferson Rodallega 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Envigado this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
15 new faces, and Envigado are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Jhon Pérez
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
25 days out for Carlos Úsuga after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Envigado will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Envigado
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Envigado are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
7.81, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Didier Palacios and Envigado agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Envigado this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Envigado
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yeferson Rodallega was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Jhon Pérez dropped after a run of poor form
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The dugout
No place in the plan for Didier Palacios
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Úsuga out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Envigado will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Envigado
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Envigado are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A move Daniel Orduz 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. Daniel Orduz is living that version at Envigado, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Didier Dawson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Once Caldas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jhon Pérez, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Orduz and Envigado agree another 4 years.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Independiente Medellin ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
39 days out for Carlos Úsuga after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Envigado will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market24 Aug 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Santiago Asprilla is a Envigado player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Envigado
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yeferson Rodallega was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Santa Fe, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Envigado this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Javier Arias to a room that had heard them before.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Envigado march on in the cup
Aguilas Doradas are out and Envigado go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Carlos Úsuga breaks a bone — 47 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Frey Berrio, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.20
A mark of 8.20 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Envigado
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yeferson Rodallega was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Envigado
Didier Dawson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Envigado supporters have found a favourite in Tomás Soto
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Tomás Soto 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.
Match12 Aug 2026
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Tomás Soto in the middle of it, and Aguilas Doradas unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Juan Manuel Zapata was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.10. 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.