The Deportes Tolima Courier
Squad29 Jan 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Francisco Uviedo
103 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportes Tolima lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Brian Herrera breaks a bone — 17 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match27 Jan 2029
Whatever happens, Deportes Tolima do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market29 Jan 2029
Only the photograph left for Gali Balanta
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gali Balanta will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportes Tolima the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Deportes Tolima
Anderson Angulo 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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan José Mera is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings29 Jan 2029
Nobody could get near Luis Sánchez
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market29 Jan 2029
Daniel Pedrozo 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.
Player ratings29 Jan 2029
The afternoon belonged to Jan Carlos Ángulo
A mark of 7.32, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
In brief
- Match Deportes Tolima draw a blank against Atletico Nacional
- Player ratings The referee tires of Juan José Mera
- Market Listowel Amankona placed on the list