Junior Hernández

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8 Oct 2026
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10 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Jorge Cabezas Hurtado lights up a European night for Deportes Tolima

1‑0 against Internacional, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Jorge Cabezas Hurtado was at the centre of the description.

Player ratings

A brace, and Edwar López takes the afternoon — 7.98

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Edwar López provided it, and the 7.98 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Adrián Parra

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

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.

Match

Nobody wins at Deportes Tolima

10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

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 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Neto Volpi

“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

Too much change too quickly at Deportes Tolima

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.

In brief

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6 Edition

The Deportes Tolima Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Adrián Parra

Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

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.

Squad

Luis Sandoval 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.

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

Jorge Cabezas Hurtado sends Deportes Tolima past Once Caldas

It finished 1‑0, and it was Jorge Cabezas Hurtado’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Deportes Tolima.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Junior Hernández — 7.49

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 7.49, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Deportes Tolima

9 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.

Squad

Oscar Hurtado stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Oscar Hurtado and Deportes Tolima agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Jorge Cabezas Hurtado

7.70, 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.

In brief