The Valledupar Post
Squad15 Feb 2027
The knee: Richard Muriel out for 126 days
126 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Valledupar lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market15 Feb 2027
Ivan Martinez asks to leave Valledupar
“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.
Match13 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Valledupar
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Jonathan Lozano 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Junior take the points off Valledupar
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Bruno Batista
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Batista, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Hector Vargas left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Valledupar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Duvan Mina 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
A promise honoured at Valledupar
Something was said to Bruno Batista and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
In brief
- The dugout David Valencia knocks on the manager's door
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Ivan Martinez
- Squad Hector Lopez makes his debut at 18