Marked for Alfredo Ramirez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A KTP teenager takes the young player award
Gift Sunday is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Petteri Forsell’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 48. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Gift Sunday, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.07
A mark of 8.07 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at KTP
Jovan Krneta 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alfredo Ramirez commits to KTP for another 4 years.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 19 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
KTP find a way past HIFK
HIFK made KTP work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Khalid Shakhtiev, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
10 new faces, and KTP 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Upbeat
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 50. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Francisco Herrera damages knee ligaments — 151 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 151 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Juan Rodriguez: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match26 Aug 2026
Cortulua march on in the cup
Atletico Nacional are out and Cortulua go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Cortulua did not have in the autumn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Millonarios, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The kick that got away from Jose Uribe
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.