The Cortulua Post
Squad24 Aug 2026
Roberto Marín 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Santiago Quintero 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 Cortulua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Nicolas Martinez
At 23 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Cortulua get the job done against Atletico Nacional
A 2‑0 win over Atletico Nacional, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Roberto Marín at his very best
Marked 8.36. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cortulua.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nicolas Martinez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.27. 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
James Zapata runs at them all day
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolas Sinisterra
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Cortulua pick somebody else ahead of Cristian Zapata
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Juan Gomez could not do
- Market Sergio Zapata placed on the list
- Boardroom The Cortulua dressing room answers