The Colón Post
Player ratings7 Jul 2031
Iván Ojeda scores twice — 8.70
Two goals and a mark of 8.70 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings7 Jul 2031
Age has not caught Nicolás Talpone yet — 8.19
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.19 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Nicolás Talpone signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicolás Talpone commits to Colón for another 2 years.
Market7 Jul 2031
Luis Suárez’s move to Madryn falls through
The deal that would have taken Luis Suárez to Madryn has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Colón with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Franco Saucedo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Words at Colón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Talpone 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.
Match5 Jul 2031
Colón find a way past Estudiantes
Estudiantes made Colón work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Transfer targets7 Jul 2031
Instituto tell Colón: Derlis Almada is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces7 Jul 2031
The crowd has taken to José Miranda
At 17 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Franco Farías at his very best
- Squad Franco Farías reaches 100 appearances
- Transfer targets Colón ask about Matías Figueroa