Edwin Velasco

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7 Edition

The Deportivo Cali Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Sep 2026

Deportivo Cali taken apart

0‑4 to Independiente Medellin, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Kevin Cuesta arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Kevin Cuesta has, at Deportivo Cali, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Deportivo Cali

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

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Ronaldo Pájaro beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom14 Sep 2026

Doors closed at Deportivo Cali

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Deportivo Cali

Jhildrey Lasso 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The formation has left Kevin Cuesta behind

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

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Andres Lemos: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

One moment undoes Johan Martínez

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

In brief

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5 Edition

The Deportivo Cali Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match29 Aug 2026

Deportivo Cali run riot against Union Magdalena

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Both of them Johan Martínez's — 8.88

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.88, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Edwin Velasco yet — 8.11

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.11 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Deportivo Cali

Daniel Giraldo 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Johan Martínez at the heart of a fast Deportivo Cali start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Johan Martínez in the middle of it, and Union Magdalena unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Emanuel Reynoso

Marked 8.33 — 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Tití Rodríguez was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.17. 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.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Daniel Giraldo 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

16 new faces, and Deportivo Cali 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Deportivo Cali Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Eduard Bello runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match19 Aug 2026

Deportivo Cali bow out of the cup

Real Cartagena go through and Deportivo Cali go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Deportivo Cali

Emanuel Reynoso 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.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Pedro Gallese

“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

One of those days for Emanuel Reynoso

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

Doors closed at Deportivo Cali

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Match22 Aug 2026

Deportivo Cali share the spoils with Deportivo Pasto

A 2‑2 draw with Deportivo Pasto leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Emanuel Reynoso 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 Deportivo Cali, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Half-satisfied: Andres Lemos on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 2‑2, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief