The Cortulua Post
Market3 Aug 2026
Levante come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cortulua did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
Alejandro Sanchez 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 Cortulua can pretend not to have heard.
Market3 Aug 2026
Alejandro Escobar wants more than Cortulua are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market3 Aug 2026
Cortulua may not be able to give Sebastian Lopez what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Sebastian Lopez wants continental football; whether Cortulua can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gabriel Rios 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Edwin Gomez 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Sebastian Lopez the difference as Cortulua beat Envigado
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sebastian Lopez. 1‑0 against Envigado, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
One of those days for Sebastian Lopez
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alejandro Escobar asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Jorge Giraldo
- Squad The manager makes an example of Sergio Cordoba
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Richard Cardona