The Deportivo Cali Chronicle
Player ratings27 Jan 2031
Nobody could get near Daniel Barrea
Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market27 Jan 2031
Jerson Ortiz asks to leave Deportivo Cali
“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.
Market27 Jan 2031
Juan Manuel Arango is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportivo Cali is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Jan 2031
Marco Pellegrino 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 Deportivo Cali this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Jan 2031
A move Weverson would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Weverson is living that version at Deportivo Cali, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market27 Jan 2031
Alexandro Maidana wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom27 Jan 2031
13 academy players handed senior numbers at Deportivo Cali
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad27 Jan 2031
Pedro Gallese 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.
Squad27 Jan 2031
Pedro Gallese 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.
In brief
- Market Daniel Lemos steps up from the Deportivo Cali academy
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Marco Pellegrino
- Match Deportivo Cali and Bogota cancel each other out