Marked for Eduardo Esterilla
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Armando Preciado will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportes Quindio the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yosimarc Torres 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Armando Preciado, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Borneo come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Deportes Quindio did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Andrés Tello wants continental football; whether Deportes Quindio can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yosimarc Torres was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Santiago Roa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santiago Roa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportes Quindio the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Borneo had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad10 Aug 2026
José Lloreda 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sebastian Valencia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jefferson Borja has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The formation has left Roger Torres behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Deportes Quindio will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.