Gabriel Vargas

Attacking Midfielder (C) - La Equidad U20
9 Mar 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Vargas

30 Edition

The La Equidad Sentinel

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Vitor Andrade out for 32 days

32 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. La Equidad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Camilo Montero

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Thomas Romero says La Equidad went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Fabian Martinez puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at La Equidad, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at La Equidad

Nicolás Castro 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.

Squad

Héctor Solano stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Héctor Solano and La Equidad agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

La Equidad count the cost of losing Gabriel Vargas

28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Duvan Moreno

A mark of 7.58, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

Sebastian Sanchez: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

Back issues
26 Edition

The La Equidad Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Vitor Andrade out for 64 days

64 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. La Equidad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Fabian Martinez asks to leave La Equidad

“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.

Match

The wait goes on for La Equidad

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

The goals have deserted La Equidad

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at La Equidad can tell you which week it ends in.

Market

Felipe Valencia 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.

Player ratings

Gabriel Morales was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at La Equidad

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Jhonny Mena 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 La Equidad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

La Equidad come up short against Once Caldas

Once Caldas left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief