The Deportes Tolima Courier
Market25 Jan 2027
Jan Carlos Ángulo asks to leave Deportes Tolima
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Deportes Tolima
Anderson 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Luis Ospina comes home
The shirt still fits. Luis Ospina is back at Deportes Tolima, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market25 Jan 2027
Pablo Rodriguez is a Deportes Tolima player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market25 Jan 2027
Daniel Valencia is a Deportes Tolima player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Jersson González 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Jeinner Fuentes the difference as Deportes Tolima beat Union Magdalena
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jeinner Fuentes. 2‑0 against Union Magdalena, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A masterclass from Jeinner Fuentes
Marked 8.60 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
One of those days for Ever Valencia
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.48, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Player ratings Edwar López runs at them all day
- Player ratings Anderson Angulo shuts the door
- Squad Adrián Parra is not enjoying his job description