The La Equidad Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Kevin Rios goes
Tottenham paid $36.9M and La Equidad took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market10 Aug 2026
Not going: Richard Gonzalez stays at La Equidad
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” San Diego Football Club had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Juan Caicedo, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.64
A mark of 7.64 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market10 Aug 2026
Mateo Sinisterra wants more than La Equidad are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mateo Sinisterra signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mateo Sinisterra commits to La Equidad for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at La Equidad
Juan Caicedo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Edwin Gonzalez wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
La Equidad supporters have found a favourite in Fabian Bacca
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Fabian Bacca has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match8 Aug 2026
Kevin Rios sends La Equidad past Santa Fe
It finished 1‑0, and it was Kevin Rios’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to La Equidad.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at La Equidad
- The dugout Edwin Gonzalez gets it from the manager
- Player ratings Carlos Garcia was unplayable