Edwin Rios

Defensive Midfielder - Valledupar U20
29 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Edwin Rios

18 Edition

The Valledupar Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Valledupar

Alfredo Lopez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Edwin Rios 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.

Squad

Duvier Díaz has settled at Valledupar

The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Valledupar Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Valledupar

Alfredo 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.

The dugout

Duvier Díaz 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.

Squad

Edwin Rios 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

9 Edition

The Valledupar Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Yerry Gonzalez asks to leave Valledupar

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

A falling-out at Valledupar

Alfredo Lopez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Valledupar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Rios 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Valledupar Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Valledupar

0‑1 against Atletico Nacional, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Tempers go at Valledupar

Alfredo 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alfredo Lopez

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nicolas Arias

“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.

The dugout

Sergio Valencia: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

A row about effort at Valledupar

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edwin Rios was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief