Jáder Obrian

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Santa Fe
22 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jáder Obrian

8 Edition

The Santa Fe Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten Santa Fe

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Words exchanged at Santa Fe

Luis Palacios 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 ratings

Nahuel Bustos was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.35. 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.

Match

Late, late show earns Santa Fe a point

Minute 95, against Once Caldas, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jáder Obrian

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

Match

Honours even between Santa Fe and Once Caldas

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Emanuel Olivera asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Jáder Obrian 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 dugout

Diego Palacios: “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 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Santa Fe Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Santa Fe out

Out, 0‑0 to Deportes Tolima, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Andrés Mosquera Marmolejo wins the shoot-out

1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Santa Fe

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Boardroom

Santa Fe agree a free transfer for Santiago Cubides

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Player ratings

Jáder Obrian runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kevin Balanta

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

Player ratings

Jeison Angulo fails from the spot

Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Santa Fe

12 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.

Player ratings

Omar Fernández was the difference for Santa Fe

Marked 7.34. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief