Daniel Borja

Right Wingback - La Equidad
25 Nov 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Borja

14 Edition

The La Equidad Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

La Equidad are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 26 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Player ratings

Daniel Borja was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. 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.

Match

Nobody wins at La Equidad

10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Caicedo 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.

Squad

Benjamín Ubierna stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Benjamín Ubierna and La Equidad agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Andres Palacios 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

Julian Cuadrado the difference as La Equidad beat Deportivo Cali

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Julian Cuadrado. 2‑0 against Deportivo Cali, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Francisco Caicedo

Marked 8.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Sergio Santos in the eights

A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

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11 Edition

The La Equidad Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Felipe Cardona 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 The request is on a desk at La Equidad, and it is not being withdrawn.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

The step up is real for Camilo Duque

At 18 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.

Squad

Francisco Caicedo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

A falling-out at La Equidad

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

The dugout

Santiago Hernandez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at La Equidad will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for La Equidad

Atletico Nacional top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

Market

The Santiago Hernandez talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. La Equidad know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Carlos Cardona's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Victor Muriel asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

8 Edition

The La Equidad Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

A statement in Europe from La Equidad

4‑1 against Colo-Colo, and a performance that will change how the rest of the competition talks about this club. Reputations in continental football are built in single evenings and this was one.

Player ratings

Both of them Francisco Caicedo's — 8.35

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.35, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Julian Uribe, 20, 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 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Pablo Pereyra pops up at the right end — 7.84

7.84, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Santiago Hernandez 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

After 7 games, La Equidad finally taste it again

The first defeat in 7 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Deportivo Pereira; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Squad

A row about effort at La Equidad

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

Match

A bad afternoon for La Equidad against Deportivo Pereira

0‑1 to Deportivo Pereira, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

La Equidad count the cost of losing Rafael Quintero

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

In brief

7 Edition

The La Equidad Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play La Equidad right now

6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Julian Uribe, 20, steals the show — 7.93

Marked 7.93 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

La Equidad find a way past Patriotas

Patriotas made La Equidad work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

One of their own: Diego Diaz

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

A row about effort at La Equidad

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

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Daniel Borja at his very best

Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at La Equidad.

Player ratings

Pablo Pereyra was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Fabian Uribe kept it short after the 3‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

Santiago Hernandez gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Santiago Hernandez is on it.

In brief