Bryan Castrillón

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Junior
12 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Bryan Castrillón

4 Edition

The Junior Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Junior

A 3‑0 win over Leones, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Junior lose Cristian Barrios

47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Tempers go at Junior

Luis Muriel 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Jesús Rivas

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Déiber Caicedo

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Daniel Rivera in the eights

A performance of 9.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

No hiding place for Jean Carlos Pestaña

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

Player ratings

One of those days for Bryan Castrillón

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.70, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Junior and Deportivo Pereira take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Junior Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bryan Castrillón

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Junior march on in the cup

Barranquilla are out and Junior go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

Lucas Monzón shuts the door

Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Luis Muriel 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 Junior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Yimmi Chará

Marked 9.26 — 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Luis Muriel

“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

Junior find a way past Patriotas

Patriotas made Junior work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Daniel Rivera

Marked 8.61 — 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.

Squad

Yimmi Chará finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Junior have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief