Marked for Daniel Ramirez
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Upbeat
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Market16 Aug 2027
Pablo Latorre has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around La Equidad they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Duvan Ospina was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market16 Aug 2027
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether La Equidad can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Kevin Barrios 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leonardo Perez. 1‑0 against Junior, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Kevin Barrios 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Kevin Barrios is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.20 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
Dairon Asprilla damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 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 ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Jun 2027
“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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Santa Cruz 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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
The deal with Flamengo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market7 Jun 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Deportes Quindio have kept their man, and La Equidad go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Hervin Goyes was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
At 22 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
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dairon Asprilla
101 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, La Equidad do not lose
8 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Hervin Goyes 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Daniel Ramirez wants continental football; whether La Equidad can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A row about effort at La Equidad
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Camilo Mancilla was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match10 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Aguilas Doradas will be the happier side with the point.
The dugout12 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
Squad8 Feb 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Matías Escobar
“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.
Match6 Feb 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Jose Duque’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to La Equidad.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Camilo Mancilla 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Daniel Ramirez wants continental football; whether La Equidad can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Neffer Díaz commits to La Equidad for another 4 years.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A mark of 7.66, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
In brief
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Squad
Hervin Goyes makes the team of the month
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Market
Andres Rios told to find a new club
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Steady
Market14 Dec 2026
$3.4M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
Supporters turn on the $3.4M sale of Miguel Moreno
He is going to Patriotas, the club has $3.4M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The chase for David Contreras ended with $130.0K changing hands and America de Cali out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
The offer went to Millonarios this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
La Equidad have gone to Deportivo Pasto with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market14 Dec 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether La Equidad can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at La Equidad
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Victor Herrera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Too much change too quickly at La Equidad
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
Miguel Moreno hands in a written request
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Carlos Sierra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at La Equidad
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Camilo Mancilla was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luis Bonilla and La Equidad agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. La Equidad told Diego Sánchez something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Diego Murillo 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes David Montoya a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at La Equidad. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market26 Oct 2026
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Luis Bonilla arrives at La Equidad with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A move Ivan Luquetta would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ivan Luquetta is living that version at La Equidad, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, La Equidad do not lose
8 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Carlos Sierra was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market12 Oct 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether La Equidad can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Luquetta commits to La Equidad for another 2 years.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” David Hernandez chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.