Nicolas Martinez

Central Midfielder - Cortulua
7 Sep 2026
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Marked for Nicolas Martinez

4 Edition

The Cortulua Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

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

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The Cortulua Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match12 Aug 2026

The small margins put Cortulua out

Out, 1‑2 to Alianza Petrolera, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A debut Jesus Medina will not forget — 7.48

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.48 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 10 of the 26 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Nicolas Sinisterra at 19 — 8.17

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nicolas Sinisterra did not need any: 8.17, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A first appearance Duvan Rios will want to forget — 5.60

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.60, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Cortulua

Roberto Marín 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Juan Gomez

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match15 Aug 2026

Cortulua get the job done against Deportes Tolima

A 2‑1 win over Deportes Tolima, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Cortulua supporters have found a favourite in Nicolas Sinisterra

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Nicolas Sinisterra 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.

In brief