Brian Diaz

Right Midfielder - Santa Fe U20
3 Nov 2030
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Marked for Brian Diaz

185 Edition

The Santa Fe Herald

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Feb 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Brian Diaz

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Santa Fe lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings11 Feb 2030

Up for the corner, and Jhojan Torres delivers — 7.75

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Jhojan Torres scored, was marked 7.75, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market11 Feb 2030

Joaquín Enrico has one foot out of the door

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

Squad11 Feb 2030

Edwin 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 Santa Fe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match9 Feb 2030

Juan Manuel Rengifo sends Santa Fe past Union Magdalena

It finished 2‑0, and it was Juan Manuel Rengifo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Santa Fe.

The dugout11 Feb 2030

Diego Rodríguez 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.

Market11 Feb 2030

Valentín Aguiñagalde 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 ratings11 Feb 2030

One of those days for Juan Manuel Rengifo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings11 Feb 2030

One of those days for Edwin Mosquera

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Santa Fe training over how hard people work
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Omar Fernández has become a man the manager trusts
Back issues
184 Edition

The Santa Fe Herald

4 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad4 Feb 2030

Brian Diaz damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market4 Feb 2030

Jacob Gómez has one foot out of the door

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

Market4 Feb 2030

Santa Fe may not be able to give Mateo García what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mateo García wants continental football; whether Santa Fe can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad4 Feb 2030

Omar Fernández signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Omar Fernández and Santa Fe agree another 2 years.

Squad4 Feb 2030

A falling-out at Santa Fe

Edwin Mosquera and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match2 Feb 2030

At last: Santa Fe win one

7 matches without a win, and then this, against Deportivo Pasto. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match2 Feb 2030

Edwin Mosquera sends Santa Fe past Deportivo Pasto

It finished 2‑0, and it was Edwin Mosquera’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Santa Fe.

Player ratings4 Feb 2030

Ninety minutes of Edwin Mosquera at his very best

Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Santa Fe.

Player ratings4 Feb 2030

One of those days for Jersson González

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.18, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Santa Fe training over how hard people work
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Diego Rodríguez
  • The dugout Daniel Rios: “That is the standard”
183 Edition

The Santa Fe Herald

28 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Jan 2030

The knee: Brian Diaz out for 38 days

38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Santa Fe lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match26 Jan 2030

7 matches without a win for Santa Fe

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Santa Fe are no longer polite ones.

Squad28 Jan 2030

Omar Fernández out for 58 days

The medical room confirms 58 days on the sidelines for Omar Fernández, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings28 Jan 2030

Jersson González was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market28 Jan 2030

Only the photograph left for Juan Daniel Espitia

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Daniel Espitia will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Santa Fe the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market28 Jan 2030

Jersson González 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.

Squad28 Jan 2030

Words exchanged at Santa Fe

Edwin Mosquera and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match26 Jan 2030

3 matches without a goal for Santa Fe

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match26 Jan 2030

Santa Fe come up short against Atletico Bucaramanga

Atletico Bucaramanga left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

182 Edition

The Santa Fe Herald

21 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Jan 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Brian Diaz

46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Santa Fe lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market21 Jan 2030

Valentín Aguiñagalde has one foot out of the door

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

Squad21 Jan 2030

Tempers go at Santa Fe

Edwin Mosquera 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.

Market21 Jan 2030

As if he never left: Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem is a Santa Fe player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad21 Jan 2030

A move Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem 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. Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem is living that version at Santa Fe, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom21 Jan 2030

Graduation day at Santa Fe

9 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Boardroom21 Jan 2030

Santa Fe beat the market to Juan Pablo Montoya from Leones

Leones will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Juan Pablo Montoya has pre-agreed a move to Santa Fe, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market21 Jan 2030

Diego Moreno steps up from the Santa Fe academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Moreno 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.

Market21 Jan 2030

One of our own: Hector Santos joins the Santa Fe first team

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

In brief