The Union Magdalena Herald
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Juan Diego Giraldo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Diego Giraldo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Union Magdalena the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Didier Cabrera keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Union Magdalena may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Cristian Iguarán 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 Union Magdalena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Edwin Laszo 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Juan Diego Giraldo is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Víctor Cabezas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Union Magdalena will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Víctor Cabezas question follows Union Magdalena around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Víctor Cabezas’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
The goals keep arriving from Ricardo Márquez’s exile
6 goals in 9 games at Aguilas Doradas — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Union Magdalena updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A door opens for Juan Diego Giraldo
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- Market Still no signature from Jimmy Congo
- Squad “I want to play”: Manuel Ballesteros speaks
- Market Union Magdalena put Juan Camilo Romero up for sale