William Tesillo

Central Defender - Atletico Nacional
15 Feb 2027
Monday
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The Atletico Nacional Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Dairon Asprilla out for 89 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atletico Nacional will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Atletico Nacional run riot against Deportivo Pasto

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

A brace, and Elías Cabrera takes the afternoon — 8.36

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Elías Cabrera provided it, and the 8.36 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Whatever happens, Atletico Nacional do not lose

11 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.

Market

Atletico Nacional turn down Volos NPS for Kevin Cataño

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match

The run at home goes on for Atletico Nacional

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

William Tesillo 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 Atletico Nacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Atletico Nacional

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.

The terraces

One of their own: Elías Cabrera

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief

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The Atletico Nacional Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Edwin Cardona asks to leave Atletico Nacional

“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.

Market

Atletico Nacional spend $3.7M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $3.7M has been paid because Leonardo Godoy is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Market

Atletico Nacional turn down Valledupar for Elkin Rivero

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Words exchanged at Atletico Nacional

Franco Armani 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.

The terraces

The town asked, and Atletico Nacional paid $3.7M

Leonardo Godoy was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $3.7M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Market

Kevin Cataño comes home with the gloves

17 games away and 9 of them without conceding. Atletico Nacional sent a goalkeeper out to find him some football and have been handed a selection problem instead: the man in possession of the shirt now has somebody behind him who has spent a season being picked.

Squad

Words at Atletico Nacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Torres 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 dugout

Elías Cabrera 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 Elías Cabrera is on it.

The dugout

Gustavo Torres knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Atletico Nacional, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief