Marked for Darlinson Murillo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Darlinson Murillo
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Envigado lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Jun 2027
14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Edison López 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 Envigado this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market21 Jun 2027
Union Magdalena paid $45.0K and Envigado took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch21 Jun 2027
“I watch every Envigado game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Valledupar runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Didier Dawson
“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.
Match19 Jun 2027
It needed Cesar Rubio to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Deportivo Cali, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
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Words at Envigado training over how hard people work
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Julián Palacios spends the afternoon fouling
Back issues
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
Darlinson Murillo damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Envigado, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Jun 2027
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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Edison López 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.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” William Hurtado commits to Envigado for another 4 years.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Luis Ángel Díaz falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch14 Jun 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Envigado, and 3 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Market14 Jun 2027
Union Magdalena are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Envigado will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Darlinson Murillo
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Envigado lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Envigado can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Jun 2027
Envigado make home a hard place to visit
13 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Edison López 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 Envigado this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Envigado training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Ángel Díaz 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 terraces7 Jun 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match5 Jun 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nilzo Ronaldo. 1‑0 against Atletico Nacional, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Edison López's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Crisis
Squad31 May 2027
Darlinson Murillo damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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 ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 May 2027
Edison López 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.
Market31 May 2027
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.
The terraces31 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Luis Ángel Díaz 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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Ninety minutes of Luis Ángel Díaz at his very best
Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Envigado.
Squad31 May 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Stiwart Acuña for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Envigado will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad31 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Didier Palacios, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Edison López 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 Envigado this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Envigado training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Ángel Díaz 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.
Squad19 Oct 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.