The Atletico Nacional Courier
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Milton Casco
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atletico Nacional lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Jan 2027
86 days out for William Tesillo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Atletico Nacional will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Ronaldo Lucena has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atletico Nacional they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Atletico Nacional
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mateus Uribe 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Elías Cabrera beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market25 Jan 2027
One of our own: Francisco Mejia joins the Atletico Nacional first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Francisco Mejia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market25 Jan 2027
Edwin Sanchez steps up from the Atletico Nacional academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Edwin Sanchez 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Atletico Nacional promote Sergio Muriel from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergio Muriel 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.
In brief
- Match Gustavo Torres sends Atletico Nacional past Real Cartagena
- Boardroom Atletico Nacional sign off a bigger ground
- Player ratings Gustavo Torres takes the honours