Samuel Montero

Striker - Deportivo Cali
20 Aug 2027
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The Deportivo Cali Chronicle

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

21 unbeaten for Deportivo Cali

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 21 matches without defeat is a foundation Deportivo Cali did not have in the autumn.

Match

Cup progress for Deportivo Cali

A 4‑1 win over Depor, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Camilo Machado scores twice — 8.74

Two goals and a mark of 8.74 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Edison López hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Cali can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Samuel Montero, 18, steals the show — 8.35

Marked 8.35 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

The run at home goes on for Deportivo Cali

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Market

Brayan Moreno wants European nights

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.

Player ratings

Mateo Puerta was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. 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.

Squad

Emanuel Reynoso 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 Deportivo Cali this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

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