The Bogota Courier
The dugout14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Brayan Castro
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brayan Castro, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Alejandro Aguilar gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alejandro Aguilar is on it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
José Caicedo knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and José Caicedo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Bogota
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jafé Pérez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Cristian Rivas has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Cristian Rivas has written the date down.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Samuel Peréa has settled at Bogota
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
In brief
- Squad Wiler Garzón is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Welcome back, Luis Londoño