Marked for Alejandro Cabrera
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 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.
Squad26 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alejandro Cabrera, and the manager let it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
59 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad19 Oct 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.
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.
From our football correspondent
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.