Francisco Castillo

Goalkeeper - Cortulua U20
13 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Francisco Castillo

74 Edition

The Cortulua Post

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Cortulua has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Francisco Castillo

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

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Cortulua boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Jesús Ceballos asks to leave Cortulua

“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

Camilo Hernandez 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 Cortulua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Sebastian Palacios moves on

Union Magdalena pay $150.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

Back issues
73 Edition

The Cortulua Post

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Francisco Castillo

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

Match

Cortulua are in real trouble now

Position 19, 26 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Edson González keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cortulua may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Cortulua

Camilo Hernandez 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.

Market

Cristian Barrios moves on

Envigado pay $310.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Andres Santos 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