Jonathan Ríos

Defensive Midfielder - Colon
15 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jonathan Ríos

28 Edition

The Colon Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Colon

Leandro Méndez 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Colon

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Agustín Chopitea was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Agustín Rodríguez

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

Squad

“I want to play”: Agustín Rodríguez speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout

Ignacio Milans 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 Ignacio Milans is on it.

Squad

Is this Jonathan Ríos’s last season?

“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Jonathan Ríos is 36, with 280 appearances behind him, and Colon will have to plan for whichever answer comes.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Colon Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Colon

Leandro Méndez 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.

Squad

Agustín Chopitea 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 dugout

Tomás Lerman knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Colon, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Ignacio Milans has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Colon 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.

Market

Colon put Jonathan Ríos up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Jonathan Ríos may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout

Agustín Rodríguez keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Agustín Rodríguez plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

In brief