Johan Duque

Central Midfielder - Valledupar
23 Mar 2028
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The Valledupar Post

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match6 Mar 2028

Every point is an argument now for Valledupar

Position 12 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market6 Mar 2028

Manuel Lopez puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Valledupar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match4 Mar 2028

7 matches without a win for Valledupar

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Valledupar are no longer polite ones.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Pablo Sanchez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pablo Sanchez and Valledupar agree another 3 years.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Valledupar

Luis Becerra 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.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Richard Prieto 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.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Luis Becerra 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.

Match4 Mar 2028

Valledupar share the spoils with Deportes Quindio

A 1‑1 draw with Deportes Quindio leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Nobody could get near Manuel Valencia

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

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The Valledupar Post

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings21 Feb 2028

Nobody could get near Alejandro Cordoba

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match19 Feb 2028

Depor punish Valledupar for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Johan Duque will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Valledupar escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Match19 Feb 2028

No end in sight to Valledupar's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Valledupar has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad21 Feb 2028

Tempers go at Valledupar

Luis Becerra 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.

Match19 Feb 2028

No clean sheets in sight for Valledupar

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Player ratings21 Feb 2028

Johan Duque was the difference for Valledupar

Marked 7.89. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match19 Feb 2028

Johan Duque rescues a point for Valledupar

It needed Johan Duque to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Depor, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings21 Feb 2028

The cruellest goal, and it is Jesús Martínez's

A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Valledupar will not try tonight.

Squad21 Feb 2028

Alfredo Zapata 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.

In brief

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The Valledupar Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Valledupar

Luis Becerra 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.

Boardroom25 Jan 2027

Graduation day at Valledupar

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Richard Restrepo 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.

Market25 Jan 2027

Valledupar promote Fabian Perez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fabian Perez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market25 Jan 2027

Hector Medina steps up from the Valledupar academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hector Medina has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market25 Jan 2027

One of our own: Pablo Lemos joins the Valledupar first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pablo Lemos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market25 Jan 2027

One of our own: Johan Vargas joins the Valledupar first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Johan Vargas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad25 Jan 2027

No hiding place for Alejandro Gomez

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alejandro Gomez, and the manager let it.

Squad25 Jan 2027

10 new faces, and Valledupar are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

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