The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. Jaguares will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Mateo Cordoba, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.27
A mark of 8.27 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
“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.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
A first appearance David Martinez will want to forget — 5.58
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.58, 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.
Hector Bacca 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.
The phone has started ringing about Mateo Cordoba again, and this time the name on the line is Valerenga. La Equidad are listening politely and promising nothing.
At 18 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.
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. La Equidad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Deportivo Cali paid $1.1M and La Equidad took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at La Equidad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Add another name to the list: Deportivo Pasto have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sebastian Ospina. The answer from La Equidad has not changed — yet.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Mina 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.
A new face in his position, and Hector Bacca suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. La Equidad have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Add another name to the list: Bogota have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Samuel Nardo. The answer from La Equidad has not changed — yet.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at La Equidad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Richard Vargas 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.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jorge Mina has his answer from La Equidad; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jefferson Rangel wants continental football; whether La Equidad can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alejandro Lopez and La Equidad agree another 4 years.
“I watch every La Equidad game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Urawa Reds runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Mina 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.
Carlos Barrios 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at La Equidad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Mina 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.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at La Equidad, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jorge Mina 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.