Daniel Quintero

Right Midfielder - Leones U18
9 Dec 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Quintero

19 Edition

The Leones Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Terms done: Bryan Caicedo is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Cortulua waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Leones is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Leones turn down Millonarios for Jonathan Marulanda

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

A fracture rules Daniel Quintero out for 38 days

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

Transfer targets

Franklin Mosquera is a medical away from Leones

The deal with Jaguares is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

A row about effort at Leones

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Germán Meneses was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Kevin Tamayo told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kevin Tamayo has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Leones.

Squad

Tempers go at Leones

Jeimar Ibargüen 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.

Transfer targets

Leones ask about Joaquín Molina

A loan enquiry to Banfield: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Cristian Rodríguez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Leones 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

Back issues
7 Edition

The Leones Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cristian Lora has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leones they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Jeycob Zabaleta has agreed to leave Leones for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Market

Daniel Quintero steps up from the Leones academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Quintero 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.

Market

Leones promote Javier Herrera from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Javier Herrera 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.

Market

One of our own: Jefferson Gonzalez joins the Leones first team

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

Squad

Germán Meneses 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Cristian Lora

“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 dugout

Cristian Rodríguez gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cristian Rodríguez is on it.

The dugout

The manager makes Jonathan Marulanda a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Leones. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief