Daniel Cataño

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Independiente Medellin
27 Nov 2026
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Marked for Daniel Cataño

12 Edition

The Independiente Medellin Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

No sign of nerves from Halam Loboa at 20 — 7.62

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Halam Loboa did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Halam Loboa at Independiente Medellin

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Halam Loboa is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market19 Oct 2026

Yony González wants European nights

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.

Match17 Oct 2026

Independiente Medellin see off Jaguares

Three points for Independiente Medellin, 2‑1 the final word against Jaguares in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces19 Oct 2026

Independiente Medellin supporters have found a favourite in Halam Loboa

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Halam Loboa 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.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Alexis Serna in the eights

A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Daniel Cataño 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.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Nicolas Murillo has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Nicolas Murillo on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Baldomero Perlaza dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Independiente Medellin Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match30 Sep 2026

Independiente Medellin out of the cup

Santa Fe ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Salvador Ichazo keeps Independiente Medellin in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Juan Manuel Viveros is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match3 Oct 2026

Diego Herazo the difference as Independiente Medellin beat Junior

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Diego Herazo. 3‑2 against Junior, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

One of those days for Yony González

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.40, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Alexis Serna was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.02. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Both jobs done by Daniel Cataño — 6.85

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 6.85, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Too much change too quickly at Independiente Medellin

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Independiente Medellin

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

In brief

8 Edition

The Independiente Medellin Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Sep 2026

Cortulua end the Independiente Medellin run at 7

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 7 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Match19 Sep 2026

Cortulua take the points off Independiente Medellin

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Luis Escorcia 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 Independiente Medellin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Bryan Castrillón

“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 ratings21 Sep 2026

Diego Herazo was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Boardroom21 Sep 2026

Nobody left the Independiente Medellin dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Nicolas Murillo to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Agustín Martegani leaves them behind him

Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Looking ahead21 Sep 2026

Yony González faces his old club

Deportivo Cali next, and one man in the Independiente Medellin dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

2 Edition

The Independiente Medellin Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Aug 2026

Halam Loboa stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Halam Loboa and Independiente Medellin agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Independiente Medellin

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Enzo Larrosa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Independiente Medellin

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

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Yony González stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.74 on the card, and the Independiente Medellin support went home talking about one name.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Didier Moreno

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Match8 Aug 2026

Honours even between Independiente Medellin and Patriotas

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market10 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Independiente Medellin and Enzo Larrosa

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Independiente Medellin, another week without a signature from Enzo Larrosa.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Nicolas Murillo on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Nicolas Murillo after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Enzo Larrosa knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Enzo Larrosa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief