The Atletico Nacional Courier
Squad9 Jul 2029
The knee: Aldair Quintana out for 107 days
107 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Atletico Nacional lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market9 Jul 2029
Andrés López agrees terms with Valledupar
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Atletico Nacional people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The dugout9 Jul 2029
Jackson Porozo: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Atletico Nacional have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market9 Jul 2029
Léyser Chaverra 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 Atletico Nacional can pretend not to have heard.
Market9 Jul 2029
Only the photograph left for Johan Bonilla
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Johan Bonilla will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Atletico Nacional the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Aldair Quintana signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aldair Quintana and Atletico Nacional agree another 2 years.
Match7 Jul 2029
Once Caldas end the Atletico Nacional run at 8
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Market9 Jul 2029
Atletico Nacional may not be able to give Tomás Avilés what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Tomás Avilés wants continental football; whether Atletico Nacional can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Transfer targets9 Jul 2029
Atletico Nacional rebuffed over Luis Marquínez
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Junior have kept their man, and Atletico Nacional go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Match Juan José Ramírez’s goal not enough for Atletico Nacional
- Squad Atletico Nacional count the cost of losing Oscar Ramirez
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Edwin Herrera