Brian Lemos

Striker - Depor U20
17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Brian Lemos

85 Edition

The Depor Courier

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Depor's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Depor has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Depor taken apart

0‑3 to Envigado, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Andru Torres says Depor went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Jhonier Alomía 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 Depor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Wesley Babel gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Wesley Babel has just signed for Depor, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

The manager makes an example of David Agudelo

“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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Depor

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Market

Depor sign Brian Lemos, one for the future

Brian Lemos is 20, and Depor have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

Depor buy the years ahead of Wesley Babel

He is 17, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

Back issues
79 Edition

The Universitario Popayan Gazette

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Brayan Aragón asks to leave Universitario Popayan

“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.

Squad

Sebastián Macías 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 Universitario Popayan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for José Rodrigues

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to José Rodrigues, and the manager let it.

Match

Jesus Martinez the difference as Universitario Popayan beat Bogota

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jesus Martinez. 1‑0 against Bogota, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Jesus Martinez was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.29. 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.

Squad

Words at Universitario Popayan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Moriñigo 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.

Squad

Nicolas Gonzalez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolas Gonzalez and Universitario Popayan agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

An afternoon José Rodrigues will want back

Marked 5.58. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Fernando Falcao

Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief