César Mena

Central Defender - Deportes Quindio
7 Jan 2028
Friday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 4 Transfers Relations Events 116 Awards Matches History

Marked for César Mena

74 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad27 Dec 2027

The knee: Sergio Pabón out for 61 days

61 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportes Quindio lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom27 Dec 2027

Pressure builds in the Deportes Quindio boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market27 Dec 2027

Joel Silva has said yes to Envigado

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Deportes Quindio have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market27 Dec 2027

César Mena 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 The request is on a desk at Deportes Quindio, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Words exchanged at Deportes Quindio

Jonathan Ávila 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.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauricio Castaño 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.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Luis Rivas signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luis Rivas and Deportes Quindio agree another 4 years.

The dugout27 Dec 2027

The manager makes an example of Jesús Serrano

“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.

The dugout27 Dec 2027

Felix Mosquera gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Felix Mosquera is on it.

In brief

Back issues
71 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad6 Dec 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergio Pabón

83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportes Quindio lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad6 Dec 2027

109 days out for Jhon Pérez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportes Quindio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market6 Dec 2027

Sergio Pabón 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 Deportes Quindio can pretend not to have heard.

Squad6 Dec 2027

A falling-out at Deportes Quindio

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

The dugout6 Dec 2027

news_h_frozen_out_of_the_side

news_b_frozen_out_of_the_side

Squad6 Dec 2027

Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauricio Castaño 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.

Transfer targets6 Dec 2027

Door shut on Franco Pastrana

Deportes Quindio asked and Defensa y Justicia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets6 Dec 2027

Deportes Quindio try to borrow Kleber Díaz

Union Magdalena have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets6 Dec 2027

Deportes Quindio ask about Adrián Mosquera

A loan enquiry to Independiente Medellin: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

42 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 May 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mauricio Castaño

92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportes Quindio lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market17 May 2027

Cristhian Subero 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 Deportes Quindio can pretend not to have heard.

Match15 May 2027

The wait goes on for Deportes Quindio

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings17 May 2027

Age has not caught Jhonier Viveros yet — 7.88

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

The dugout17 May 2027

César Mena says Deportes Quindio went back on their word

“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.

Squad17 May 2027

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 May 2027

Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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.

The dugout17 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Jonathan Ávila

“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 ratings17 May 2027

A masterclass from Jhoao Rodríguez

Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

7 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

Nicolás Palacios due for a Deportes Quindio medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Jhonier Viveros 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.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Andrés Tello gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market14 Sep 2026

Deportes Quindio promote Jose Cordoba from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jose Cordoba 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

Deportes Quindio promote Brian Diaz from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Brian Diaz 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The formation has left César Mena behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Deportes Quindio will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Santiago Roa asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Jhoao Rodríguez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportes Quindio will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief