Marked for David Castillo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market19 Jun 2028
Leganés come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and La Equidad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market19 Jun 2028
The chase for David Agudelo ended with $110.0K changing hands and Depor out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Sergio Ramirez 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Dairon Asprilla
“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.
Match17 Jun 2028
0‑2 to Cortulua, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market19 Jun 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. La Equidad will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad19 Jun 2028
David Castillo 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.
Market19 Jun 2028
Ederson Moreno is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at La Equidad has been clear about where Ederson Moreno stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Richard Lemos dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Player ratings29 May 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Boardroom29 May 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at La Equidad
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad29 May 2028
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.
Match27 May 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Edwin Falcao. 3‑2 against Deportivo Cali, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings29 May 2028
David Castillo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.94. 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.
The terraces29 May 2028
At 23 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.
Squad29 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergio Ramirez, and the manager let it.
Squad29 May 2028
Edwin Falcao is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.20 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad29 May 2028
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ederson Moreno 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
Crisis
The terraces8 May 2028
The mood at La Equidad has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad8 May 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sergio Ramirez and La Equidad agree another 2 years.
Squad8 May 2028
Sergio Ramirez 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.
Match6 May 2028
Envigado left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad8 May 2028
Edwin Falcao 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.
Player ratings8 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad8 May 2028
Alejandro Arias is the division's best young player this month
At 19 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. La Equidad will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Player ratings8 May 2028
Shots: 4. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Boardroom8 May 2028
$3.2M taken back off the La Equidad table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 May 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” La Equidad may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom1 May 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at La Equidad
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at La Equidad is running low.
Squad1 May 2028
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.
Squad1 May 2028
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Ribeiro 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.
Player ratings1 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Apr 2028
Real Cartagena left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 May 2028
“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.
The terraces1 May 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Player ratings1 May 2028
5.57. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Upbeat
Match22 Apr 2028
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.77 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Apr 2028
Only the photograph left for Ederson Moreno
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ederson Moreno will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around La Equidad the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Sergio Ramirez 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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Daniel Ribeiro 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.
The terraces24 Apr 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. David Castillo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dairon Asprilla, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Johan Barrios was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.67. 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.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Jan 2028
The unthinkable, invoiced: Mateo Cordoba sold
Real Sociedad arrived with $5.0M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Squad24 Jan 2028
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The terraces24 Jan 2028
La Equidad sell a favourite for $5.0M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Mateo Cordoba was one of the reasons people came, and $5.0M does not replace that by itself.
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.39 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad24 Jan 2028
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.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Daniel Ribeiro
“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.
Market24 Jan 2028
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jose Mina has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market24 Jan 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Camilo Quintero has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces17 Jan 2028
The mood at La Equidad has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market17 Jan 2028
“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 La Equidad, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market17 Jan 2028
The offer from Grasshopper for David Cardona 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Sergio Ramirez 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 Jan 2028
Daniel Ribeiro 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
7 new faces, and La Equidad 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
La Equidad interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Mateo Cuadrado keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.
Market3 Jan 2028
The offer from SonderjyskE for Hector Bacca 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
“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 La Equidad, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Jan 2028
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and La Equidad have had the benefit of it.
Market3 Jan 2028
The phone has started ringing about David Cardona again, and this time the name on the line is Guarani. La Equidad are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Hector Bacca 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 La Equidad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces20 Dec 2027
Anger at La Equidad spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market20 Dec 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what La Equidad can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces20 Dec 2027
La Equidad sell a favourite for $220.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Samuel Nardo was one of the reasons people came, and $220.0K does not replace that by itself.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Duván Córdoba: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” La Equidad have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market20 Dec 2027
Samuel Nardo has left for Barranquilla in a $220.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Ribeiro 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
Crisis
The terraces22 Nov 2027
Anger at La Equidad spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Freddy Herrera damages knee ligaments — 137 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 137 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market22 Nov 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what La Equidad can pretend not to have heard.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces25 Oct 2027
Anger at La Equidad spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match25 Sep 2027
13 matches without a win for La Equidad
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around La Equidad are no longer polite ones.
The terraces27 Sep 2027
Anger at La Equidad spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Juan Quintero
41 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market27 Sep 2027
“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 La Equidad, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad27 Sep 2027
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.
Loan watch27 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Brisbane Roar to sit and watch. I want to come back to La Equidad and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
Juan Quintero damages knee ligaments — 81 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 81 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for La Equidad
8 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” La Equidad may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A first appearance Yeison Murillo will want to forget — 5.43
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.43, 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Sergio Ramirez 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Daniel Ribeiro 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch23 Aug 2027
“I watch every La Equidad game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Deportivo Pasto runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Crisis
Market26 Jul 2027
“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 La Equidad, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match24 Jul 2027
The wait goes on for La Equidad
4 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Daniel Ribeiro 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“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.
Match24 Jul 2027
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match24 Jul 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Market28 Jun 2027
$870.0K — a new record at La Equidad
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Market28 Jun 2027
“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.
Market28 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
A defender's goal wins it for La Equidad — 7.94
1 for Jefferson Rangel, marked 7.94, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Sergio Ramirez 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 terraces28 Jun 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Cristián Cañozales from Aguilas Doradas for $870.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Daniel Ribeiro 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.
Match26 Jun 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Jefferson Rangel’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to La Equidad.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dairon Asprilla and La Equidad agree another 2 years.
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Crisis
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” La Equidad may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
A first appearance Rafael Granados will want to forget — 5.46
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.46, 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Sergio Ramirez 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The fee is $92.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Bogota drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
La Equidad spend $92.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $92.0K for Luis Rivas, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Match12 Jun 2027
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Jun 2027
David Castillo 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jefferson Rangel, and the manager let it.
Market14 Jun 2027
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Uneasy
Match22 May 2027
5 matches without a win for La Equidad
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around La Equidad are no longer polite ones.
Squad24 May 2027
Hector Bacca 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 La Equidad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergio Ramirez, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Castillo 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.
Loan watch24 May 2027
“I watch every La Equidad game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Deportivo Pasto runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad24 May 2027
Richard Lemos asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Player ratings24 May 2027
The one thing Jorge Mina could not do
Shots: 4, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Match22 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Santa Fe came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Match15 May 2027
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Daniel Ribeiro will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at La Equidad escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Match15 May 2027
No end in sight to La Equidad's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at La Equidad has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad17 May 2027
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.
Squad17 May 2027
Daniel Ribeiro 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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Ninety minutes of Edwin Falcao at his very best
Marked 8.82. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at La Equidad.
Squad17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of David Castillo
“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.
Match15 May 2027
It needed Daniel Ribeiro to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Millonarios, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. La Equidad deserved better, and so did he.
Squad17 May 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces3 May 2027
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad3 May 2027
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.
Squad3 May 2027
Hector Bacca 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.
Match1 May 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 May 2027
David Castillo 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.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I watch every La Equidad game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Real Cartagena runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad3 May 2027
John Tarazona dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match12 Apr 2027
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match10 Apr 2027
No end in sight to La Equidad's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at La Equidad has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Age has not caught Sergio Ramirez yet — 8.11
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.11 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Sergio Ramirez 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 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Richard Lemos
“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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
David Castillo 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.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Deportes Quindio to sit and watch. I want to come back to La Equidad and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Apr 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Crisis
Match20 Feb 2027
No end in sight to La Equidad's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at La Equidad has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Hector Bacca 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of Edwin Falcao at his very best
Marked 8.35. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at La Equidad.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Hector Bacca wants out of the spotlight
The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at La Equidad
5 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
5.56 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Jorge Mina could not find anything
5.69. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Crisis
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for La Equidad
5 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Hector Bacca 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 La Equidad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market8 Feb 2027
No place for Hector Bacca in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Hector Bacca has his answer from La Equidad; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Match6 Feb 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Richard Lemos, and the manager let it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I watch every La Equidad game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Real Cartagena runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. John Tarazona 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Hector Ramirez dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Crisis
The terraces1 Feb 2027
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 8 of the 28 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Match30 Jan 2027
No end in sight to La Equidad's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at La Equidad has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Market1 Feb 2027
No place for Edwin Falcao in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Edwin Falcao has his answer from La Equidad; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Match30 Jan 2027
0‑1 to Cortulua, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Castillo, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Freddy Caicedo commits to La Equidad for another 4 years.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“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 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad1 Feb 2027
John Tarazona 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.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
The unthinkable, invoiced: Ivan Gonzalez sold
FC Nantes arrived with $2.8M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
Supporters turn on the $2.8M sale of Ivan Gonzalez
He is going to FC Nantes, the club has $2.8M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market11 Jan 2027
So close: Jorge Mina’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Cortulua moved on, Jorge Mina reports back to La Equidad, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.