Daniel Murillo

Striker - Leones
24 Aug 2036
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Murillo

496 Edition

The Leones Gazette

28 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Cristian Rodríguez, 34, rolls back the years — 8.33

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.33 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Oscar Giraldo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Leones, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A falling-out at Leones

Luis Lee and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Leones ask Slávia TU Košice the expensive question

The target is the manager, the approach is real, and the compensation clause is the whole conversation. Clubs deny this kind of story right up until the photograph.

Boardroom

Still no name above the door at Leones

Day 8 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Match

Cristian Rodríguez sends Leones past Valledupar

It finished 2‑1, and it was Cristian Rodríguez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leones.

Player ratings

Leyner Palacios in the eights

A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Words at Leones training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Alfaro 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.

Squad

Daniel Murillo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Murillo and Leones agree another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
495 Edition

The Leones Gazette

21 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Leones run out of patience with Interim Coach

The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Interim Coach clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.

Boardroom

An empty coaching office at Leones

There is nobody left to promote and nobody left to run a session. The board have brought in a name the supporters do not know, and the question of how a club gets here will outlast whoever answers it.

Boardroom

Interim Coach minds the shop at Leones

“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Interim Coach recited it perfectly.

Market

Javier Barrios asks to leave Leones

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Words exchanged at Leones

Luis Lee and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Leones

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market

Mateo Mina steps up from the Leones academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mateo Mina 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.

Market

One of our own: Freddy Medina joins the Leones first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Freddy Medina is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Daniel Murillo joins the Leones first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Murillo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief