Edwin Echeverría

66 Edition

1 Nov 2027

From our football correspondent Steady

Match1 Nov 2027

Atletico Nacional are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 61 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Edwin Cardona says Atletico Nacional 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.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Atletico Nacional lose Jorman Campuzano

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Loan watch1 Nov 2027

Juan Manuel Guerrero wants to come home

“I did not go to Deportes Quindio to sit and watch. I want to come back to Atletico Nacional and fight for my place.” 17 appearances in 44 matches say the rest.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Mateus Uribe loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Mateus Uribe. Atletico Nacional will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Alfredo Morelos takes the armband

It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.

In brief

Boardroom The Atletico Nacional board put their names to it
Loan watch The clock runs down on Edwin Echeverría at La Equidad

62 Edition

4 Oct 2027

From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad4 Oct 2027

David Ospina keeps Atletico Nacional in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match4 Oct 2027

Atletico Nacional up to position 3

58 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad4 Oct 2027

David Ospina signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Ospina commits to Atletico Nacional for another 2 years.

Match2 Oct 2027

7 unbeaten for Atletico Nacional

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Atletico Nacional did not have in the autumn.

Match2 Oct 2027

Atletico Nacional get the job done against Patriotas

A 2-1 win over Patriotas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Simón García is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.32 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

Loan watch Edwin Echeverría has seen enough of La Equidad
Squad Sebastián Berbesi gets it from the manager
The terraces The press cannot get enough of Simón García
The terraces The stand has a song for Eduard Bello

49 Edition

5 Jul 2027

From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Jul 2027

Cristian Uribe: 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.” Atletico Nacional have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market5 Jul 2027

Leones come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Atletico Nacional did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market5 Jul 2027

Elkin Rivero attracts admirers

The name of Elkin Rivero has come up in conversations Atletico Nacional were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Jorman Campuzano 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.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Cristian Uribe stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Uribe and Atletico Nacional agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Loan watch5 Jul 2027

Juan Manuel Guerrero wants to come home

“I did not go to Deportes Quindio to sit and watch. I want to come back to Atletico Nacional and fight for my place.” 9 appearances in 27 matches say the rest.

In brief

Market Junior expected to open talks for Harlen Castillo
Match Atletico Nacional share the spoils with Santa Fe
Squad Is this William Tesillo’s last season?
Market Still no signature from Eduard Bello

36 Edition

5 Apr 2027

From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Apr 2027