Marked for Javier Herrera
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match25 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Cortulua
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A season average of 7.23 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cortulua know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad27 Sep 2027
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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Javier Herrera and Cortulua agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match25 Sep 2027
1‑2 to Once Caldas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
Market26 Apr 2027
Benjamín Rey 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 Cortulua can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Cortulua
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Apr 2027
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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Apr 2027
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.
Match24 Apr 2027
2‑3 to Independiente Medellin, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 8.69 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“I watch every Cortulua game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Unión de Santa Fe runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Crisis
Market19 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cortulua can pretend not to have heard.
Match17 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Cortulua
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Duvan Muriel commits to Cortulua for another 4 years.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Carlos 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
Millonarios left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Javier Herrera
“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.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cortulua, and 0 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Cristian Herrera 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
A conversation is coming this week. Cortulua will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Crisis
Squad24 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Atletico Nacional left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Aug 2026
46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Javier Herrera
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kevin Gonzalez commits to Cortulua for another 3 years.