Danilo Ortiz

Central Defender - Deportivo Pereira
31 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Danilo Ortiz

13 Edition

The Deportivo Pereira Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marco Pérez 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 Deportivo Pereira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Ederson Moreno 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.

Squad

Words at Deportivo Pereira training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Gómez 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.

Market

Still no signature from Tobías Bovone

2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Deportivo Pereira could get for him.

The dugout

A door opens for Carlos Mosquera Marmolejo

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout

Danilo Ortiz asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Deportivo Pereira Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Deportivo Pereira

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Deportes Tolima kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Deportivo Pereira will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Player ratings

A brace, and Anderson Plata takes the afternoon — 8.69

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Anderson Plata provided it, and the 8.69 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Felipe Mosquera runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Yuber Quiñónes wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportivo Pereira

Marco Pérez 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 muscle injury sidelines Crhistian Baquero for 15 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Deportivo Pereira will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

No hiding place for Carlos Mosquera Marmolejo

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

The dugout

Walmer Pacheco is still paying for one afternoon at Deportivo Pereira

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Match

Deportivo Pereira and Deportes Tolima take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

6 Edition

The Deportivo Pereira Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Richard Rentería

39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pereira lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Not going: Tobías Bovone stays at Deportivo Pereira

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Bali United had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Match

7 matches without a win for Deportivo Pereira

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Deportivo Pereira are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Yuber Quiñónes 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 Deportivo Pereira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

La Equidad take the points off Deportivo Pereira

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Appearance number 200 for Danilo Ortiz

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout

Carlos Mosquera Marmolejo 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.

Squad

Anderson Plata is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Anderson Plata has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief

5 Edition

The Deportivo Pereira Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Richard Rentería

46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pereira lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The wait goes on for Deportivo Pereira

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Vintage Marco Pérez — 8.10

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.10, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Eyes on Tobías Bovone again

The phone has started ringing about Tobías Bovone again, and this time the name on the line is Bali United. Deportivo Pereira are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportivo Pereira

Anderson Plata and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Deportivo Pereira lose Santiago Aguilar

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

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Felipe Mosquera at his very best

Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Deportivo Pereira.

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Jaguares snatch it back from Deportivo Pereira

A goal on 86 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

In brief