The Valledupar Post
Squad10 May 2027
The knee: Juan Pablo Ramírez out for 78 days
78 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Valledupar lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match5 May 2027
The small margins put Valledupar out
Out, 0‑2 to Junior, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match8 May 2027
Hector Garcia breaks Deportivo Pereira hearts
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Hector Garcia scored in the 89th minute, Deportivo Pereira had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Valledupar took the lot.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Vintage Hugo Zarco — 8.02
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.02, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad10 May 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Cristhian Subero for 18 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Valledupar will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match8 May 2027
Valledupar find a way past Deportivo Pereira
Deportivo Pereira made Valledupar work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Jorge Palacios
“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.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Hector Garcia was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. 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 ratings10 May 2027
Jesus Herrera runs at them all day
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.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Valledupar and José Luis Melo
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout When it matters, Gonzalo Burgoa plays