David Torres

Striker - Valledupar
30 Jan 2027
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Marked for David Torres

19 Edition

The Valledupar Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Dec 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Freddy Caicedo

49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valledupar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market7 Dec 2026

Gabriel Giraldo agrees terms with Ponte Preta

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Valledupar people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market7 Dec 2026

Valledupar say no — this time

The offer from Santa Fe for David Torres was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad7 Dec 2026

The step up is real for Mateo Cuadrado

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad7 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Valledupar

Juan Rios and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

Juan Rios gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad7 Dec 2026

A row about effort at Valledupar

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hugo Cuadrado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom7 Dec 2026

Wages swallow 100% of the Valledupar income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

When it matters, Andres Lemos plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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14 Edition

The Valledupar Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom2 Nov 2026

The Valledupar board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Juan Rios 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 Valledupar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Valledupar

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miguel Barrios was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Alejandro Vargas

“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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

The armband comes off Freddy Caicedo

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.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Freddy Caicedo knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Valledupar, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief