Marked for Leonardo Castro
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market30 Nov 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Leonardo Castro
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Millonarios will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Danovis Banguero and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Contreras was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sérgio Mosquera 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Contreras was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Millonarios
9 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Felipe Mina: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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 Rodrigo Contreras is on it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Sander Navarro
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Patriotas defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market19 Oct 2026
“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sérgio Mosquera, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Something was said to Jorge Arias and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Felipe Mina was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Millonarios dressing room was either.
Match17 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Aguilas Doradas defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Patriotas next, and one man in the Millonarios dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 34 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Millonarios have a decision that made itself.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Jorge Arias 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.15, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 2‑0 win over Cortulua, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.36. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Millonarios.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Rodrigo Contreras 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
The manager makes an example of Darwin Quintero
“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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Felipe Mina on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Something was said to Sérgio Mosquera and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 49. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonardo Castro and Millonarios agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Cuadrado has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Julian Vargas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jesus Vargas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlos Romero has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Contreras 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
Felipe Mina: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.