Adrián Parra

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Deportes Tolima
1 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Adrián Parra

52 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Deportes Tolima through in the cup

A 2‑0 win over La Equidad, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Both of them Brayan Moreno's — 9.00

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Jáder Valencia puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Deportes Tolima, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 6 signed and 4 gone

That is the business done at Deportes Tolima until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Luis Sánchez 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 Deportes Tolima can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Match

6 unbeaten for Deportes Tolima

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Deportes Tolima did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Bryan Rovira 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Shean Barbosa

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

Back issues
50 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Luis Sandoval beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Tolima

Bryan Rovira 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.

Squad

Edwar López 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.

Transfer targets

Llaneros tell Deportes Tolima: Léider Riascos is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Loan watch

Jeinner Fuentes counts the days

“I watch every Deportes Tolima game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Chornomorets runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

“I want to play”: Kerwin Vargas speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Squad

The formation has left Giuliano Galoppo behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Deportes Tolima will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Jan Carlos Ángulo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportes Tolima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Match

Lucas Alario rescues a point for Deportes Tolima

It needed Lucas Alario to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Junior, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

48 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Edwar López beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Guillermo Celis asks to leave Deportes Tolima

“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.

Market

Jan Carlos Ángulo 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 Deportes Tolima can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Tolima

Anderson Angulo 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.

Market

Patriotas join the queue for Kelvin Flórez

Add another name to the list: Patriotas have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kelvin Flórez. The answer from Deportes Tolima has not changed — yet.

Squad

Bryan Rovira 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.

Transfer targets

Deportes Tolima rebuffed over Cristian Pavón

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Boca Juniors have kept their man, and Deportes Tolima go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Adrián Parra

“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.

Squad

100 appearances for Jorge Cabezas Hurtado

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

In brief

47 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Tolima

Lucas Alario 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.

Market

Deportes Tolima sell Gali Balanta for $170.0K

Gali Balanta has left for Independiente Medellin in a $170.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrián Parra 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.

Transfer targets

Deportes Tolima rebuffed over Juan Fernando Quintero

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. River Plate have kept their man, and Deportes Tolima go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Deportes Tolima come up short against Atletico Nacional

Atletico Nacional left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Edwar López beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

No hiding place for Neto Volpi

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

The dugout

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 1‑2 Luis Caicedo left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings

Wrong net for Jorge Cabezas Hurtado

A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Deportes Tolima will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.

In brief

44 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrián Parra 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.

Player ratings

Luis Sandoval beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Halfway: Deportes Tolima sit in position 11

23 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

The dugout

No hiding place for Guillermo Celis

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

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Luis Caicedo was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Deportes Tolima dressing room was either.

The dugout

Jáder Valencia gets picked when it counts

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 Jáder Valencia is on it.

The dugout

Adrián Parra left out for tactical reasons at Deportes Tolima

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Match

No goals between Deportes Tolima and Deportes Quindio

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Deportes Quindio will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

41 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for Deportes Tolima

A 2‑1 win over Alianza Petrolera, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Guillermo Celis, 34, rolls back the years — 8.05

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.05 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Tolima

Brian Rodríguez 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Tolima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adrián Parra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Deportes Tolima make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings

Brian Rodríguez beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

No hiding place for Lucas Alario

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

Squad

200 appearances for Jáder Valencia

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Loan watch

Jeinner Fuentes wants to come home

“I did not go to Chornomorets to sit and watch. I want to come back to Deportes Tolima and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

In brief

39 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Deportes Tolima

Beaten 1‑5 by Santa Fe, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match

The run is over for Deportes Tolima

9 matches without defeat, and then Santa Fe. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Match

6 goals as Deportes Tolima and Santa Fe go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Deportes Tolima and Santa Fe, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Market

Jan Carlos Ángulo wants European nights

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.

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bryan Rovira 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 dugout

Adrián Parra gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

One of those days for Brian Rodríguez

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Deportes Tolima

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

38 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten Deportes Tolima

The unbeaten run reaches 9. 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

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Squad

Adrián Parra 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Jorge Cabezas Hurtado

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Deportes Tolima find a way past Millonarios

Millonarios made Deportes Tolima work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Jorge Cabezas Hurtado

7.96, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Deportes Tolima had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Brian Rodríguez

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Yeison Moreno

“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 dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Luis Caicedo, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

36 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Adrián Parra says Deportes Tolima went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Jáder Valencia puts it in writing

“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 Deportes Tolima, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Kelvin Flórez scores twice — 7.94

Two goals and a mark of 7.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

7 unbeaten for Deportes Tolima

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Deportes Tolima did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Tolima

Brian Rodríguez 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.

Match

Kelvin Flórez sends Deportes Tolima past Deportivo Pasto

It finished 3‑2, and it was Kelvin Flórez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Deportes Tolima.

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bryan Rovira 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 terraces

One of their own: Kelvin Flórez

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

50 goals in the shirt for Edwar López

50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.

In brief

35 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Brian Rodríguez 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 Deportes Tolima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

6 unbeaten for Deportes Tolima

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Deportes Tolima did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrián Parra 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.

Player ratings

Edwar López runs at them all day

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.

Squad

Appearance number 200 for Adrián Parra

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Guillermo Celis

“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 dugout

Adrián Parra knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportes Tolima, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Luis Caicedo: “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 dugout

Jáder Valencia has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportes Tolima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

34 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bryan Rovira 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.

Player ratings

Brian Rodríguez runs at them all day

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.

Market

Éder Munive is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Deportes Tolima has been clear about where Éder Munive stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Sebastián Guzmán

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Deportes Tolima told Sebastián Guzmán something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Éder Munive

“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.

Match

Luis Sandoval rescues a point for Deportes Tolima

It needed Luis Sandoval to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Deportivo Pereira, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Adrián Parra knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adrián Parra trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Luis Caicedo: “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 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

32 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Deportes Tolima run riot against Aguilas Doradas

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Jáder Valencia puts it in writing

“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 Deportes Tolima, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Neto Volpi stands alone

7 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Tolima

Brian Rodríguez 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.

Squad

Brayan Moreno signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Brayan Moreno and Deportes Tolima agree another 4 years.

Squad

Adrián Parra 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 terraces

One of their own: Jorge Cabezas Hurtado

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Sebastián Guzmán was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.10. 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.

The dugout

Luis Sandoval gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

31 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Brian Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 37. 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.

Match

Deportes Tolima march on in the cup

Depor are out and Deportes Tolima go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Junior punish Deportes Tolima for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Edwar López will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Deportes Tolima escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings

Both of them Edwar López's — 8.82

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.82, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Both of them Jeinner Fuentes's — 8.69

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.69, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Not going: Jeinner Fuentes stays at Deportes Tolima

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Rostov had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Miguel Ortega

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Brian Rodríguez 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 Deportes Tolima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Brayan Moreno wants European nights

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.

In brief

30 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Brian Rodríguez: 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.” Deportes Tolima have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Cristian Arrieta puts it in writing

“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 Deportes Tolima, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Market

Jan Carlos Ángulo 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 Deportes Tolima can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Match

A bad afternoon for Deportes Tolima against Deportivo Cali

1‑2 to Deportivo Cali, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Adrián Parra gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Tolima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Sandoval was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Rostov expected to open talks for Jeinner Fuentes

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Deportes Tolima will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

The dugout

Luis Caicedo faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Luis Caicedo after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

29 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Víctor Barrionuevo out for 20 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportes Tolima will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Yeison Moreno 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 Deportes Tolima can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Tolima

Brian Rodríguez 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.

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrián Parra 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.

Match

Deportes Tolima find a way past Independiente Medellin

Independiente Medellin made Deportes Tolima work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

Jan Carlos Ángulo gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Jáder Valencia

7.72, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Deportes Tolima had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

Luis Caicedo has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Luis Caicedo on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Brayan Moreno gets picked when it counts

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 Brayan Moreno is on it.

In brief

28 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Deportes Tolima

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Atletico Nacional kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Deportes Tolima will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Squad

28 days out for Víctor Barrionuevo after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportes Tolima will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Jáder Valencia 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 Deportes Tolima can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Deportes Tolima turn down Al-Wehda for Jeinner Fuentes

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Cristian Trujillo delivers — 7.96

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Cristian Trujillo scored, was marked 7.96, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Player ratings

Brian Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Tolima

Brian Rodríguez 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.

Match

Atletico Nacional take the points off Deportes Tolima

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bryan Rovira 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.

In brief

27 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

37 days out for Víctor Barrionuevo after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportes Tolima will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Brian Rodríguez 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 Deportes Tolima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Jeinner Fuentes attracts admirers

The name of Jeinner Fuentes has come up in conversations Deportes Tolima were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

A bad afternoon for Deportes Tolima against Envigado

0‑1 to Envigado, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Tolima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Sandoval was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Deportes Tolima dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jáder Valencia

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Luis Caicedo: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

Neto Volpi is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Neto Volpi has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief

26 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Brian Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 32. 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.

Squad

Víctor Barrionuevo breaks a bone — 44 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Real Cartagena end the Deportes Tolima run at 8

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Boardroom

2 academy players handed senior numbers at Deportes Tolima

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Tolima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adrián Parra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Deportes Tolima promote Gabriel Quintero from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Quintero has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Oscar Castillo steps up from the Deportes Tolima academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oscar Castillo 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Deportes Tolima against Real Cartagena

0‑1 to Real Cartagena, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

23 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Jeinner Fuentes turns Atletico Bucaramanga down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad

The season belongs to Luis Sandoval

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Deportes Tolima have had the benefit of it.

Market

Brayan Moreno wants European nights

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.

Squad

Brian Rodríguez 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 Deportes Tolima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Adrián Parra 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.

Transfer targets

Monterrey tell Deportes Tolima: Uroš Đurđević is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Brayan Moreno gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Shean Barbosa signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Shean Barbosa and Deportes Tolima agree another 4 years.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Deportes Tolima

Something was said to Bryan Rovira and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

20 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Deportes Tolima lift the trophy

The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.

Squad

Santiago Montoya damages knee ligaments — 82 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 82 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Deportes Tolima march on in the cup

Atletico Nacional are out and Deportes Tolima go through, 3‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Neto Volpi

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Brayan Moreno scores twice — 8.91

Two goals and a mark of 8.91 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Jáder Valencia 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 Deportes Tolima can pretend not to have heard.

Match

8 unbeaten for Deportes Tolima

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Deportes Tolima did not have in the autumn.

Transfer targets

Sebastián Driussi turns down Deportes Tolima

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: River Plate keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Player ratings

Adrián Parra runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

19 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Santiago Montoya out for 90 days

90 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportes Tolima lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Jáder Valencia keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportes Tolima may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A career in one shirt: Cristian Trujillo

10 seasons and 184 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Squad

Anderson Angulo 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 Deportes Tolima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Tolima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bryan Rovira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Nicolás Castro

Deportes Tolima asked and Toluca said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Jan Carlos Ángulo gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Transfer targets

Deportes Tolima try to borrow Sebastián Driussi

River Plate have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Pável Pérez is in the works

Deportes Tolima have made the call to Toluca. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

17 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Santiago Montoya damages knee ligaments — 105 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 105 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Tolima

Anderson Angulo 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Tolima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adrián Parra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Brayan Moreno knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Brayan Moreno trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Neto Volpi has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportes Tolima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

The manager makes Guillermo Celis a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Deportes Tolima. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

14 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Juan José Mera keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportes Tolima may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Squad

Adrián Parra 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Sebastián Guzmán

“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.

Squad

Lucas Ferraz Vila stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Ferraz Vila and Deportes Tolima agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Edwar López

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Deportes Tolima told Edwar López something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

12 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Jáder Valencia asks to leave Deportes Tolima

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Tolima

Anderson Angulo 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.

Market

Deportes Tolima may not be able to give Jan Carlos Ángulo what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jan Carlos Ángulo wants continental football; whether Deportes Tolima can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Boardroom

Deportes Tolima beat the market to David Contreras from America de Cali

America de Cali will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. David Contreras has pre-agreed a move to Deportes Tolima, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Juan José Mera 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Kelvin Flórez

“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 dugout

A promise honoured for Adrián Parra

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Deportes Tolima told Adrián Parra something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Yadir Meneses stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Yadir Meneses and Deportes Tolima agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Brayan Moreno has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportes Tolima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

11 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Neto Volpi stands alone

7 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.

Match

Whatever happens, Deportes Tolima do not lose

7 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.

Squad

Anderson Angulo 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 Deportes Tolima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Neto Volpi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Neto Volpi commits to Deportes Tolima for another 2 years.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Bryan Rovira

Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Adrián Parra runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

14 new faces, and Deportes Tolima 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yeison Moreno

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

The dugout

Anderson Angulo gets picked when it counts

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 Anderson Angulo is on it.

In brief

9 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Deportes Tolima run riot against Patriotas

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Adrián Parra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

A brace, and Jorge Cabezas Hurtado takes the afternoon — 8.81

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jorge Cabezas Hurtado provided it, and the 8.81 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Deportes Tolima cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings

Bryan Rovira goes up and wins it — 7.87

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.87 for the rest of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Tolima

Anderson Angulo 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

Ninety minutes of Brayan Moreno at his very best

Marked 8.70. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Deportes Tolima.

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan José Mera 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 dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Luis Caicedo kept it short after the 4‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

8 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Neto Volpi keeps Deportes Tolima in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Deportes Tolima make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Deportes Tolima have 3 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

Adrián Parra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Brayan Moreno 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 Deportes Tolima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Brayan Moreno sends Deportes Tolima past Aguilas Doradas

It finished 2‑0, and it was Brayan Moreno’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Deportes Tolima.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Brayan Moreno

Marked 8.41 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Bryan Rovira

Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

Guillermo Celis gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Luis Caicedo, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

7 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Bryan Rovira 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.

Match

Deportes Tolima get the job done against America de Cali

A 2‑1 win over America de Cali, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Jorge Cabezas Hurtado

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Luis Sandoval stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the Deportes Tolima support went home talking about one name.

Squad

13 new faces, and Deportes Tolima 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.

Player ratings

Adrián Parra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

A satisfied Luis Caicedo

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Luis Caicedo could afford to be generous.

The dugout

Anderson Angulo gets picked when it counts

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 Anderson Angulo is on it.

The dugout

Brayan Moreno knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportes Tolima, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

6 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

3 goals for Luis Sandoval

The match ball belongs to Luis Sandoval, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

Adrián Parra was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Market

Deportes Tolima say no — this time

The offer from Epicentr for Jáder Valencia was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Match

Luis Sandoval among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Luis Sandoval on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Deportes Tolima and Once Caldas.

Match

Deportes Tolima get the job done against Once Caldas

A 4‑2 win over Once Caldas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bryan Rovira 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.

Player ratings

Luis Sandoval in the eights

A performance of 9.33 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

Anderson Angulo gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

5 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Neto Volpi is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Neto Volpi: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Deportes Tolima through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Independiente Medellin, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Tolima

Anderson Angulo 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.

Market

Jáder Valencia 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 Deportes Tolima can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Match

Jorge Cabezas Hurtado’s goal not enough for Deportes Tolima

Jorge Cabezas Hurtado scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Santa Fe, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

Juan Pablo Torres beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Adrián Parra was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.13. 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

Brayan Moreno answers Independiente Medellin immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Brayan Moreno had Deportes Tolima level again within 2 minutes, and Independiente Medellin never got to play with a lead at all.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sebastián Guzmán

“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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Jeinner Fuentes at 21 — 7.63

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jeinner Fuentes did not need any: 7.63, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Cristian Trujillo has been here 10 seasons

180 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Anderson Angulo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anderson Angulo and Deportes Tolima agree another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Tolima

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

Squad

Words at Deportes Tolima training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bryan Rovira 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Juan Pablo Torres

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Juan Pablo Torres the difference as Deportes Tolima beat Atletico Bucaramanga

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Juan Pablo Torres. 2‑0 against Atletico Bucaramanga, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

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One of those days for Juan Pablo Torres

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

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Adrián Parra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief