Marked for Ronald Angulo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Dec 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad4 Dec 2028
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 Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Dec 2028
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Yosimarc Torres 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.
Loan watch4 Dec 2028
“I did not go to Persebaya to sit and watch. I want to come back to Deportes Quindio and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Transfer targets4 Dec 2028
Deportivo Cali have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets4 Dec 2028
A loan move for Carlos Nemocón is in the works
Deportes Quindio have made the call to Santa Fe. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
“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.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad6 Nov 2028
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 Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Santiago Roa 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 dugout6 Nov 2028
José Lloreda gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch6 Nov 2028
“I did not go to Persebaya to sit and watch. I want to come back to Deportes Quindio and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Squad6 Nov 2028
The captaincy has been taken off Santiago Roa. Deportes Quindio will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad6 Nov 2028
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Oct 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Santiago Roa and Deportes Quindio agree another 2 years.
Squad9 Oct 2028
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 Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Santiago Roa 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.
Loan watch9 Oct 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Deportes Quindio, and 4 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
Ronald Angulo gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ronald Angulo is on it.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
The manager makes Duván Riascos a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Deportes Quindio. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
The dugout11 Sep 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportes Quindio may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Armando Preciado and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yosimarc Torres was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch11 Sep 2028
“I watch every Deportes Quindio game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Persebaya runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Duván Riascos
“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.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
Ronald Angulo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportes Quindio will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Aug 2028
Jhoao Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Roa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch14 Aug 2028
“I did not go to Persebaya to sit and watch. I want to come back to Deportes Quindio and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Duván Riascos
“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.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Ronald Angulo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportes Quindio will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Match3 Jun 2028
After 17 games, Deportes Quindio finally taste it again
The first defeat in 17 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Depor; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Market5 Jun 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
The deal with San Martín SJ is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Jhoao Rodríguez 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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Roa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match3 Jun 2028
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match3 Jun 2028
0‑1 to Depor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Looking ahead5 Jun 2028
Leones next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
In brief
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Squad
Jhonny Mena signs a new deal
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Market
Barranquilla are about to pick up the phone
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Upbeat
Squad8 May 2028
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Jhon Figueroa: 4 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match3 May 2028
A 1‑1 win over Atletico Nacional, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match6 May 2028
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Deportes Quindio did not have in the autumn.
Match8 May 2028
31 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Player ratings8 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad8 May 2028
Jhoao Rodríguez 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.
Squad8 May 2028
Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sekou Diawara is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout8 May 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match6 May 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sekou Diawara. 1‑0 against Alianza Petrolera, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.