The Bogota Courier
Squad21 Aug 2028
Kevin Salazar breaks a bone — 96 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Bogota count the cost of losing David Borja
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Bogota
Cristián Mosquera 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.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
114% of the income goes out in wages at Bogota
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
Cristián Mosquera gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cristián Mosquera is on it.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Samuel Peréa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market Alejandro Aguilar linked with a move away
- The dugout Cristian Quiñónes asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Juan Diego Pérez has settled at Bogota
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Juan Mina