The Independiente Medellin Herald
Match12 Aug 2026
Independiente Medellin out of the cup
Bogota ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Bryan Castrillón
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Independiente Medellin against Deportivo Pereira
0‑2 to Deportivo Pereira, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Independiente Medellin 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Mateo Giraldo: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Didier Moreno
Nobody at Independiente Medellin is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A Independiente Medellin teenager takes the young player award
Halam Loboa is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Daniel Cataño goes back to face Deportivo Pasto
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Daniel Cataño’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Independiente Medellin needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The chances came and went for Agustín Martegani
6 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Alexis Serna
- Player ratings The afternoon ran through Ramón Lentini
- Market The Halam Loboa talk will not go away