Manuel Mina

Defensive Midfielder - Valledupar U18
15 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Manuel Mina

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The Valledupar Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 ratings

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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