Marked for Brayan Gómez
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at La Equidad
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match4 Oct 2027
Every point is an argument now for La Equidad
Position 19 and 22 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
David Uribe has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at La Equidad can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Fabian Lopez in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at La Equidad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolas Ramirez 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.
Match2 Oct 2027
Millonarios left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Oct 2027
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 David Uribe left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Rafael Uribe makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
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The dugout
Rafael Uribe without the man who signed him
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Looking ahead
La Equidad take on the side everybody is chasing
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Brayan Gómez
Back issues
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Crisis
Match17 Apr 2027
10 matches without a win for La Equidad
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around La Equidad are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Apr 2027
40 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. La Equidad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market19 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Fabian Lopez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Apr 2027
0‑1 to Patriotas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Alfredo Gonzalez 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 dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Johan Santos left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Rafael Gomez out for 37 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason La Equidad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Diego Restrepo: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” La Equidad have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Fabian Lopez 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Alejandro Zapata 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout16 Nov 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 Fabian Sanchez is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Zapata 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
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rafael Tapia and La Equidad agree another 3 years.
Squad26 Oct 2026
No place for Brayan Gómez in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation La Equidad are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ivan Gonzalez 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Brayan Gómez and La Equidad agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Andres Ramirez 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alfredo Gonzalez 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
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.
Market19 Oct 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and La Equidad have gone and got theirs early.