The Atletico Bucaramanga Chronicle
Player ratings25 Jun 2035
Cristian Alomía runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 49. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Cristian Rivas breaks a bone — 41 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market25 Jun 2035
Marius Essapa Esseme 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 The request is on a desk at Atletico Bucaramanga, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market25 Jun 2035
Juan José Castaño has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atletico Bucaramanga they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Tempers go at Atletico Bucaramanga
José Ortiz 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
José Ortiz 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Atletico Bucaramanga count the cost of losing Oscar Caicedo
24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match23 Jun 2035
Cristian Alomía rescues a point for Atletico Bucaramanga
It needed Cristian Alomía to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Once Caldas, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market25 Jun 2035
The José Ortiz talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Atletico Bucaramanga know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Ivan Hernandez leaves for nothing
- Boardroom Atletico Bucaramanga keep producing them