The Deportes Tolima Courier
Squad24 Jan 2039
A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonardo Escalante
147 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportes Tolima lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom24 Jan 2039
Deportes Tolima tie Felipe Muriel down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Match22 Jan 2039
Whatever happens, Deportes Tolima do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Boardroom24 Jan 2039
13 academy players handed senior numbers at Deportes Tolima
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad24 Jan 2039
Kevin Cataño falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market24 Jan 2039
Deportes Tolima promote Jorge Giraldo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Giraldo 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.
Market24 Jan 2039
Oscar Duque steps up from the Deportes Tolima academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oscar Duque 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.
Market24 Jan 2039
Cristian Diaz steps up from the Deportes Tolima academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cristian Diaz 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.
Market24 Jan 2039
Alejandro Moreno steps up from the Deportes Tolima academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alejandro Moreno 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.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Deportes Tolima board did not keep
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Tiziano Correa
- Squad 7 new faces, and Deportes Tolima are still learning each other