Marked for Wilmar Restrepo
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Triumph
Squad17 May 2027
102 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. La Equidad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match17 May 2027
La Equidad refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 33 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match15 May 2027
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 86th, and Union Magdalena spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Match15 May 2027
Whatever happens, La Equidad do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad17 May 2027
Duvan Quintero and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexandro Licona has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 May 2027
Pablo Restrepo 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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Nicolas Rios was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.26. 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.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Apr 2027
131 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. La Equidad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match19 Apr 2027
La Equidad refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 23 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
A brace, and Duvan Quintero takes the afternoon — 9.05
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Duvan Quintero provided it, and the 9.05 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match17 Apr 2027
A 3‑2 win over Aguilas Doradas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad19 Apr 2027
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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A row about effort at La Equidad
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Restrepo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes of Hector Falcao at his very best
Marked 8.10. 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 ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
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.” Camilo Gonzalez kept it short after the 3‑2 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Crisis
Squad5 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Livingston
147 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. La Equidad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Duvan Quintero and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match3 Apr 2027
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Restrepo 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“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.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
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.
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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
José Barragán damages knee ligaments — 47 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 47 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match23 Feb 2027
La Equidad come up short in Europe
1‑2 away to the standard of Nacional. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what La Equidad can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Duvan Quintero at his very best
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at La Equidad.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Hector Falcao and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Jhon Ibargüen will call it something else in private.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“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.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
A brace, and Wilmar Restrepo takes the afternoon — 8.06
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Wilmar Restrepo provided it, and the 8.06 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
José Barragán: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” La Equidad have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match20 Feb 2027
The run at home goes on for La Equidad
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Samuel Cotto 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
La Equidad are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
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.” Camilo Gonzalez kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Sergio Muriel out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason La Equidad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” La Equidad may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market1 Feb 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Omonoia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and La Equidad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match30 Jan 2027
La Equidad make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match30 Jan 2027
Whatever happens, La Equidad do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Óscar Alcócer and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match30 Jan 2027
Three points for La Equidad, 1‑0 the final word against Jaguares in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of Miguel Cuadrado at his very best
Marked 8.19. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at La Equidad.
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match17 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, La Equidad do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad19 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Quiñónes and La Equidad agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Óscar Alcócer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Carlos Zambrano
“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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Camilo Gonzalez could afford to be generous.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Wilmar Restrepo damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Juan Borja
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Miguel Cuadrado, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.31
A mark of 8.31 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at La Equidad heard it as anything else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Pablo Restrepo for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. La Equidad will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Javier Mina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A season average of 7.03 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. La Equidad know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deportes Quindio will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Armando Preciado has pre-agreed a move to La Equidad, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Wilmar Restrepo damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alexandro Licona has just signed for La Equidad, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Javier Mina 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at La Equidad
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergio Muriel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Gustavo Uribe 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Nicolas Rios story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nicolas Rios signs something — a contract at La Equidad or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market7 Sep 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and La Equidad have gone and got theirs early.
Market7 Sep 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and La Equidad have gone and got theirs early.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. La Equidad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Juan Borja runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.74 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.00, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Aguilas Doradas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jhon Azcárate and La Equidad agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Camilo Gonzalez on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.