Rafael Acuña

Defensive Midfielder - Cortulua
8 Oct 2034
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Marked for Rafael Acuña

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The Cortulua Post

7 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 Aug 2034

5 matches without a win for Cortulua

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Cortulua are no longer polite ones.

Squad7 Aug 2034

Rafael Acuña says Cortulua went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market7 Aug 2034

Miguel Medina has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cortulua they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings7 Aug 2034

Both jobs done by Juan Sebastián Ramírez — 5.88

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 16 actions, 5.88, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad7 Aug 2034

Tempers go at Cortulua

Santiago Hernandez 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.

Match5 Aug 2034

Cortulua cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad7 Aug 2034

The manager makes an example of Fernando Álvarez

“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.

Match5 Aug 2034

Union Magdalena take the points off Cortulua

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad7 Aug 2034

Words at Cortulua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andres Borja 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.

In brief

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The Cortulua Post

11 Apr 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match9 Apr 2033

Cortulua taken apart

1‑4 to Atletico Nacional, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad11 Apr 2033

Rafael Acuña: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cortulua have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad11 Apr 2033

Santiago Hernandez 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 Cortulua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad11 Apr 2033

Luis Zapata 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.

Squad11 Apr 2033

Nicolas Restrepo 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.

Player ratings11 Apr 2033

Juan Sebastián Ramírez was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.07. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Boardroom11 Apr 2033

Nobody left the Cortulua dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings11 Apr 2033

Off the pace: Alexander Riascos

A mark of 5.27 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Player ratings11 Apr 2033

A day to forget for Férney Angulo

Marked 5.33, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief