Edwin Santos

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47 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad21 Jun 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrés Alfonso

49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportes Quindio lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings21 Jun 2027

Jhoao Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Martín Payares 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.

Squad21 Jun 2027

The manager makes an example of Jhoao Rodríguez

“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.

Match19 Jun 2027

A bad afternoon for Deportes Quindio against Jaguares

0‑1 to Jaguares, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Juan Pablo Ibargüen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportes Quindio will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

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38 Edition

The Valledupar Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Apr 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alfredo Quintero

75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valledupar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match19 Apr 2027

Every point is an argument now for Valledupar

Position 10 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad19 Apr 2027

A fracture rules Mateo Gomez out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Valledupar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match17 Apr 2027

The wait goes on for Valledupar

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market19 Apr 2027

Sebastian Murillo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Valledupar can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

Valledupar to lose James Valencia for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. James Valencia has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

Ivan Medina runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Valledupar

Daniel Vargas 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.

Match17 Apr 2027

The goals have deserted Valledupar

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Valledupar can tell you which week it ends in.

In brief

27 Edition

The Valledupar Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

Ivan Medina runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market1 Feb 2027

Gustavo Cuadrado puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Valledupar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market1 Feb 2027

Duvan Falcao is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Valledupar is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Valledupar

Alfredo Quintero 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.

Match30 Jan 2027

3 matches without a goal for Valledupar

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market1 Feb 2027

Mateo Giraldo is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Valledupar has been clear about where Mateo Giraldo stands, which is more than many ever get.

Match30 Jan 2027

Valledupar come up short against Leones

Leones left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Wages eat 131% of everything Valledupar earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Brayan Blandón gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

21 Edition

The Valledupar Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market21 Dec 2026

Valledupar say no — this time

The offer from Deportivo Pasto for Alfredo Quintero was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Valledupar

Alfredo Quintero 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.

Market21 Dec 2026

Business is business: Francisco Giraldo goes

La Equidad paid $67.0K and Valledupar took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad21 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Alfredo Quintero

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

Squad21 Dec 2026

Too much change too quickly at Valledupar

24 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Edwin Santos 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.

In brief