Bubu

Goalkeeper - Valledupar
26 Sep 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Bubu

53 Edition

The Valledupar Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jesús Martínez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Valledupar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Valledupar

Oscar Lopez 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.

Squad

Facundo Barreto in trouble away from the ground

Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.

In brief

  • Squad Alejandro Mejia out for 27 days
  • Market The window shut and Bubu is still in the building
Back issues
45 Edition

The Valledupar Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Richard Restrepo scores twice — 9.05

Two goals and a mark of 9.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Real Cartagena come back empty-handed

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

Market

Bubu 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 Valledupar can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Richard Restrepo 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 Valledupar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Zalgiris expected to open talks for Richard Restrepo

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Valledupar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match

Valledupar get the job done against Real Santander

A 3‑1 win over Real Santander, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Johan Arias at his very best

Marked 8.57. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Valledupar.

Squad

Gabriel Gomes named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Gabriel Gomes is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

Nicolás Carreño 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

34 Edition

The Valledupar Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Alejandro Gomez

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Richard Restrepo 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 Valledupar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Valledupar see off Real Santander

Three points for Valledupar, 2‑1 the final word against Real Santander in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Richard Restrepo at his very best

Marked 8.43. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Valledupar.

Squad

Nicolás Carreño 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 ratings

Johan Arias in the eights

A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief