The Valledupar Post
Match30 Jan 2027
3 matches without a goal for Valledupar
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Valledupar
Jefferson Romero 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Valledupar against Alianza Petrolera
0‑2 to Alianza Petrolera, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Manuel Mina out for 24 days
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Manuel Mina, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Fernando Bacca left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Franco Ojeda was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Lemos
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A first team debut at 19 for Gabriel Rangel
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 19. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The armband comes off Jane Moreno
Valledupar will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
In brief
- Market Valledupar and Jane Moreno are talking past each other
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Jane Moreno
- Player ratings Edwin Gonzalez unlocks it