Marked for Iago Herrerín
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Mar 2027
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Iago Herrerín: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match27 Feb 2027
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Deportivo Pasto are no longer polite ones.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Julian Gomez: 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.” Deportivo Pasto have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Age has not caught Matías Pisano yet — 7.86
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pasto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.89, and 2 involvements.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Nicolás Gil 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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Fáiner Torijano out for 30 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Pasto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Feb 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Santiago Jiménez wants continental football; whether Deportivo Pasto can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Deportivo Pasto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Gil 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Iago Herrerín 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.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Fáiner Torijano out for 37 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Pasto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Feb 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Geovanni Banguera wants continental football; whether Deportivo Pasto can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Match30 Jan 2027
Santa Fe left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Nicolás Gil 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pasto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
7 new faces, and Deportivo Pasto are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Fáiner Torijano out for 123 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Pasto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pasto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 131 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportivo Pasto may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 138 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
56 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Diego Chávez: 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.” Deportivo Pasto have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Geovanni Banguera is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
63 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Nicolás Gil 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pasto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportivo Pasto may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Deportivo Pasto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Gil 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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
79 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pasto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mayer Gil has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Mayer Gil’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Deportivo Pasto.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
One of those days for Mayer Gil
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Iago Herrerín damages knee ligaments — 87 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Andrey Estupiñán 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Santiago Jiménez wants continental football; whether Deportivo Pasto can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Match3 Oct 2026
6 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Deportivo Pasto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Gil 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Iago Herrerín damages knee ligaments — 96 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 96 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market28 Sep 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Geovanni Banguera wants continental football; whether Deportivo Pasto can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pasto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nicolás Gil 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Mayer Gil runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.49 on the card, and the Deportivo Pasto support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
104 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The match ball belongs to Mayer Gil, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Andrey Estupiñán 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Mayer Gil at his very best
Marked 8.57. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Deportivo Pasto.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
111 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nicolás Gil 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
118 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Deportivo Pasto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Gil 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.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
125 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pasto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mayer Gil
At 22 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrey Estupiñán. 2‑0 against Junior, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago Herrerín
132 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pasto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
Out, 1‑2 to Deportivo Cali, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Geovanni Banguera: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Andrey Estupiñán 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Fáiner Torijano
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Off the bench and decisive: José Bernal
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Deportivo Pasto were going nowhere until he came on.
Market24 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Jacobo Martínez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.