The Cortulua Post
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Hugo Restrepo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 49. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2026
Cortulua through in the cup
A 3‑1 win over Alianza Petrolera, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match15 Aug 2026
Cortulua taken apart
1‑4 to Deportes Tolima, 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Freddy Arias out for 49 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cortulua will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market17 Aug 2026
Freddy Arias says no to Mirandés
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Freddy Arias had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
3 goals for Freddy Arias
The match ball belongs to Freddy Arias, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Juan Moreno 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Duvan Mina
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jose Lemos 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ángel Méndez
- Boardroom Nobody left the Cortulua dressing room in a hurry
- The dugout The manager’s verdict