Omar Bertel

Left Back - America de Cali
29 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Omar Bertel

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The America de Cali Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Josen Escobar 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 The request is on a desk at America de Cali, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Yojan Garcés, 20, steals the show — 7.71

Marked 7.71 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Omar Bertel 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

A falling-out at America de Cali

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

The terraces

One of their own: Yojan Garcés

He is 20 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.

Match

Yojan Garcés the difference as America de Cali beat Santa Fe

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yojan Garcés. 1‑0 against Santa Fe, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

No hiding place for Carlos Robles

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

Squad

A row about effort at America de Cali

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

Squad

Too much change too quickly at America de Cali

18 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.

In brief

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The America de Cali Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Jan Franc Lucumí was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 38. 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

Anorthosis come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and America de Cali did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Jean signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jean commits to America de Cali for another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at America de Cali

Jean 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

Omar Bertel 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

A row about effort at America de Cali

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

Market

The clock runs on Jean's contract

36 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at America de Cali

11 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

Marcos Mina was the difference for America de Cali

Marked 7.24. 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

  • The dugout Daniel Valencia asks for a word with the manager
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Juan David Rubio