Wilmar Romero

Right Midfielder - Cortulua
21 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Wilmar Romero

6 Edition

The Cortulua Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Wilmar Romero asks to leave Cortulua

“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.

Squad

Kevin Romero 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 place in the month's best eleven for Alfredo Montero

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Alfredo Montero has come out of that comparison in the side, and Cortulua have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

When it matters, Alfredo Montero 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.

Squad

A promotion for Alfredo Montero

Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Alfredo Montero has moved up it.

Squad

The division's best last weekend was a Cortulua man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Kevin Romero was the best thing in any of them.

Market

Léiner Escalante brings the grey hairs Cortulua lacked

At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market

The Kevin Romero talk will not go away

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

The dugout

A door opens for David Valencia

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Cortulua Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Cortulua

A 3‑2 win over Alianza Petrolera, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Gustavo Sinisterra takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Not going: Caio Correia stays at Cortulua

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Borneo had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Kevin Giraldo attracts admirers

The name of Kevin Giraldo has come up in conversations Cortulua were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Gustavo Sinisterra at his very best

Marked 9.75. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cortulua.

Squad

A row about effort at Cortulua

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

Squad

A falling-out at Cortulua

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

The terraces

One of their own: Kevin Falcao

He is 18 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jan Vega

“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.

In brief