Marked for Leonardo Castro
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Millonarios will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match2 Nov 2026
24 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match31 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Millonarios did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.27, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.41 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad2 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Millonarios do not lose
9 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Estupiñán 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sebastián 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.32, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Danovis Banguero 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Brian Arias after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jordan Ferrín is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Millonarios do not lose
6 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrey Estupiñán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Danovis Banguero 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Brian Arias was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Millonarios dressing room was either.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match8 Aug 2026
Rodrigo Ureña had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Alianza Petrolera were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.18, and nobody on the pitch better.
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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Javier Burrai, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market10 Aug 2026
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
10 new faces, and Millonarios 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.