The Valledupar Post
Match20 Jan 2029
9 matches without a win for Valledupar
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Valledupar are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings22 Jan 2029
Daniel Arcos goes up and wins it — 7.33
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.33 for the rest of it.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Valledupar count the cost of losing Hugo Hurtado
35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Dayron Mosquera 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.
Boardroom22 Jan 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Valledupar
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.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Enzo Borgarelli stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Enzo Borgarelli and Valledupar agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market22 Jan 2029
One of our own: Javier Quintero joins the Valledupar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Javier Quintero is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market22 Jan 2029
Valledupar promote Duvan Cordoba from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Duvan Cordoba 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.
Market22 Jan 2029
One of our own: Hugo Duque joins the Valledupar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hugo Duque is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Fernando Barrios joins the Valledupar first team
- Boardroom A promise the Valledupar board did not keep
- Squad Rafael Murillo gets it from the manager