Jesus Herrera

Right Midfielder - Valledupar
21 May 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Jesus Herrera

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The Valledupar Post

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Match

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 dugout

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 ratings

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 ratings

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

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The Valledupar Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Valledupar say no — this time

The offer from Bidvest Wits for Felipe 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.

Market

Ivan Vargas 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.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Valledupar

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market

One of our own: Alfredo Diaz joins the Valledupar first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alfredo Diaz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Jesus Herrera steps up from the Valledupar academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jesus Herrera 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.

Squad

Wilmar Ramirez 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 Valledupar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Hector Garcia was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Valledupar are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Brian Diaz on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief