Daniel Mantilla

Right Midfielder - Llaneros
20 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Mantilla

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The Llaneros Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Llaneros bow out of the cup

Junior go through and Llaneros 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Daniel Mantilla

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Mantilla, and the manager let it.

Squad

Llaneros are still strangers to each other

10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Daniel Mina: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Daniel Mantilla

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

When it matters, Joel Contreras plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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The Llaneros Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Daniel Mantilla has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Llaneros can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Francisco Meza signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Francisco Meza and Llaneros agree another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Llaneros

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

Squad

Francisco Meza 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.

Market

Nobody at Llaneros has picked up the phone to Luis Miranda

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

Llaneros are still strangers to each other

10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief