The Llaneros Herald
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Llaneros
Mateo García and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Llaneros
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Mantilla was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Yorleys Mena 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Llaneros lose Sergio Mina
44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jhojan Escobar moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Llaneros than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Mateo García has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Mateo García has written the date down.
In brief
- Market Llaneros shop where it costs nothing
- The dugout The manager comes out for Juan David Pertúz