The Santa Fe Herald
Market19 Apr 2027
Steven Hernández asks to leave Santa Fe
“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.
Market19 Apr 2027
Braian Uribe has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Santa Fe they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Nobody could get near Luis Palacios
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Santa Fe
Brayan Moreno and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A move Tomás López 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. Tomás López is living that version at Santa Fe, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Nahuel Bustos is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.35 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Christian Mafla 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
Santa Fe come up short against Deportes Tolima
Deportes Tolima left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
A masterclass from Nahuel Bustos
Marked 8.20 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- The dugout Manuel Muriel answers for it
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Christian Mafla
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jáder Obrian