Ivan Gomez

Defensive Midfielder - Alianza Petrolera U20
3 Jul 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ivan Gomez

73 Edition

The Alianza Petrolera Herald

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Silverware for Alianza Petrolera

They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.

Squad

Juan David Rueda breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

The knee: Ivan Gomez out for 17 days

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

Squad

Jan Franc Lucumí is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Alianza Petrolera will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

Julian Beltrán hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Alianza Petrolera can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Brayan Gómez attracts admirers

The name of Brayan Gómez has come up in conversations Alianza Petrolera were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Tempers go at Alianza Petrolera

Danilo Arboleda 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.

Transfer targets

Alianza Petrolera bid $77.0K for Johan Rodriguez

The offer went to La Equidad this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Alianza Petrolera baulk at the price for Yovany García

Depor wanted more than $80.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

In brief

Back issues
72 Edition

The Alianza Petrolera Herald

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Juan David Rueda out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Alianza Petrolera will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ivan Gomez

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

Market

Jorman Mendoza puts it in writing

“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 Alianza Petrolera, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Alianza Petrolera baulk at the price for Santiago Jiménez

Deportivo Pasto wanted more than $1.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Boardroom

Alianza Petrolera go back to the board over Santiago Jiménez

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.4M — a club that wants Santiago Jiménez enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Tempers go at Alianza Petrolera

Joaquín Molina 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Alianza Petrolera

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Deyson Copete was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch

Yefrín Castillo has seen enough of Shamakhi

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Alianza Petrolera, and 9 appearances in 26 say he has earned the hearing.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Sergio Palacios is in the works

Alianza Petrolera have made the call to Bragantino. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief