Ivan Vargas

Goalkeeper - Valledupar
4 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Ivan Vargas

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The Valledupar Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ivan Vargas 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.

Boardroom

An order from above at Valledupar: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Squad

Cristian Rodriguez slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Cristian Rodriguez is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad

Valledupar take the armband off Hector Garcia

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

The dugout

Hector Garcia knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hector Garcia trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Valledupar put Andres Sanchez up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Andres Sanchez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

Back issues
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The Valledupar Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Valledupar bow out of the cup

Atletico Nacional go through and Valledupar go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

A falling-out at Valledupar

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

Market

Veres watching Felipe Quintero

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Valledupar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jorge Palacios

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jorge Palacios, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Brian Diaz answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings

Juan Camilo Largacha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The form table has caught Jorge Santos

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Player ratings

The one thing Felipe Quintero could not do

Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Squad

A first team debut at 19 for Daniel Valencia

Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 19. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.

In brief