Luis Ramirez

Central Midfielder - Valledupar
9 Jun 2027
Wednesday
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The Valledupar Post

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

18 matches without a win for Valledupar

The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around Valledupar are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafael Bacca

102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valledupar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Valledupar

A 0‑3 beating by Barranquilla was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Rodrigo Ribeiro 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 The request is on a desk at Valledupar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Francisco Hurtado keeps Valledupar in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Valledupar

David Quintero 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

Words at Valledupar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ribeiro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Valledupar are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Valledupar dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

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The Valledupar Post

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

10 matches without a win for Valledupar

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Valledupar are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Francisco Hurtado

There were 10 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.

Match

Valledupar taken apart

0‑3 to Llaneros, 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.

Market

Rodrigo Ribeiro 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.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Valledupar

8 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.

Squad

Rodrigo Ribeiro 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Duvier Díaz

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Alejandro Vallejos 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Valledupar

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief