The Cortulua Post
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Luis Giraldo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Udinese come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cortulua did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
VfL Wolfsburg watching Hector Ospina
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Cortulua have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Cortulua may not be able to give Francisco Lopez what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Francisco Lopez wants continental football; whether Cortulua can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Hector Ospina 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Cortulua training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Lopez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Edwin Zapata
“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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Envigado take the points off Cortulua
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Richard Hurtado knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Richard Hurtado trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The terraces Supporters make their feelings known about Hector Ospina
- Market Cortulua put Sebastian Mina up for sale
- Player ratings Pablo Montero spends the afternoon fouling