The Aguilas Doradas Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Matías Ramírez was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market10 Aug 2026
Aguilas Doradas promote Wilmar Ramirez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Wilmar Ramirez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Aguilas Doradas promote Javier Vargas from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Javier Vargas 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Leonardo Muriel steps up from the Aguilas Doradas academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Muriel 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Hugo Herrera joins the Aguilas Doradas first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hugo Herrera is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Aguilas Doradas
Fabián Suárez Chalares 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Aguilas Doradas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Róyner Benítez 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Juan Esteban Ávalo
7.59, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Aguilas Doradas had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match8 Aug 2026
Aguilas Doradas and Deportivo Cali take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Looking ahead Juan Camilo Roa goes back to face Junior
- The dugout Hernán Lópes does not fit this one