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Steady
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Marked 7.47 on 19 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Germán Meneses 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for Sebastian Duque, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
103% of the income goes out in wages at Leones
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Leones
Óscar Segura and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match20 Feb 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Juan David Ruiz
“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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Andres Castillo after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Thomás Amilivia out for 59 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leones will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Leones are still strangers to each other
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Thomás Amilivia out for 106 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leones will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Leones out
Out, 0‑2 to Atletico Bucaramanga, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Leones
Germán Meneses 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Andres Castillo to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Lora, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
No place in the plan for Nicolás Gil
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 8. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The pass was always on for Óscar Segura
Chances created: 5. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
Market17 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. David García may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.