Erik Sánchez

Defensive Midfielder - Bogota
9 Jul 2028
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95 Edition

The Bogota Courier

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match22 May 2028

Bogota sink to position 10

16 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market22 May 2028

Jefferson Racines asks to leave Bogota

“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.

Squad22 May 2028

Brayan Cuero 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match20 May 2028

Bogota come up short against Barranquilla

Barranquilla left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout22 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Alejandro Aguilar

“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.

Squad22 May 2028

Bogota count the cost of losing Gabriel Diaz

23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Looking ahead22 May 2028

A six-pointer for Bogota

Universitario Popayan next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

Squad22 May 2028

Nazareno Mercado signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nazareno Mercado commits to Bogota for another 3 years.

The dugout22 May 2028

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Fernando Vargas left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

Back issues
89 Edition

The Bogota Courier

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match8 Apr 2028

8 matches without a win for Bogota

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Bogota are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings10 Apr 2028

Mateo Valenzuela, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market10 Apr 2028

Stiven Canizalez 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 Bogota can pretend not to have heard.

Squad10 Apr 2028

A falling-out at Bogota

Mauricio Medina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Looking ahead10 Apr 2028

Bogota face Tigres in the game that matters most

Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.

Match10 Apr 2028

The half-term report on Bogota

Position 10, 8 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

Loan watch10 Apr 2028

Luis Rivas counts the days

“I watch every Bogota game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Deportivo Cali runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Words at Bogota training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Valenzuela 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.

Match8 Apr 2028

Bogota and Valledupar take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

82 Edition

The Bogota Courier

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings21 Feb 2028

Mateo Valenzuela, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.84

A mark of 7.84 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market21 Feb 2028

Bogota say no — this time

The offer from Henan FC for Luis Millán was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad21 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at Bogota

Mauricio Medina 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.

Match19 Feb 2028

Bogota share the spoils with Real Santander

A 1‑1 draw with Real Santander leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout21 Feb 2028

Half-satisfied: Fernando Vargas on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad21 Feb 2028

Diego Montien 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.

The dugout21 Feb 2028

Erik Sánchez gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad21 Feb 2028

A Bogota teenager takes the young player award

Mateo Valenzuela is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

Looking ahead21 Feb 2028

José Caicedo faces his old club

Barranquilla next, and one man in the Bogota dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief