Marked for Hugo Duque
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hugo Duque 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Valledupar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Cabrera 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yéiner Orozco commits to Valledupar for another 2 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
5 new faces, and Valledupar are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market12 Oct 2026
No fee and no drama: Neyder Lozano has signed at Valledupar, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
Market12 Oct 2026
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Yéiner Orozco arrives at Valledupar with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Hugo Duque 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 Valledupar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Manuel Uribe and Valledupar agree another 1 years.
Market5 Oct 2026
Valledupar bring in an old head
Nicolás Carreño is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Hugo Duque 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager comes out for Hugo Duque
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Hugo Duque has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Valledupar will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Hugo Duque 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 Valledupar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Freddy Santos plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A welcome sight on the training pitch: Wilmar Hurtado has come through recovery and is pushing for a place again.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Hugo Duque 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 Valledupar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 2026
Valledupar have made Hector Mina available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Questions about Manuel Uribe on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Hugo Duque 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Fernando Borja pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad31 Aug 2026
24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Hugo Duque 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 Valledupar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Hector Ospina
“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.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Valledupar
0‑1 against Atletico Nacional, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Hugo Duque 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Pablo Caicedo
“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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Santiago Medina commits to Valledupar for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hugo Duque 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Valledupar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Cabrera 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Hugo Duque 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 Valledupar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alejandro Cabrera 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicolas Zapata commits to Valledupar for another 1 years.