15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independiente Medellin lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“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 The request is on a desk at Independiente Medellin, and it is not being withdrawn.
An average of 6.62 in a first team he is several years too young for. Independiente Medellin have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Julian 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.
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independiente Medellin lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yony González and Independiente Medellin agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Independiente Medellin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Independiente Medellin has been clear about where Frank Fabra stands, which is more than many ever get.
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independiente Medellin lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yimy Gómez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Independiente Medellin the goodbyes have quietly begun.
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independiente Medellin lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Independiente Medellin may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Independiente Medellin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Alexis Serna 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.
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independiente Medellin lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Independiente Medellin can pretend not to have heard.
Julian 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Yony González 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.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Sebastián Ramírez wants continental football; whether Independiente Medellin can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Independiente Medellin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
5 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yony González 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fabian Herrera 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Duque 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.