Ivan Luquetta

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Independiente Medellin
6 Apr 2028
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Marked for Ivan Luquetta

24 Edition

The Independiente Medellin Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Jan 2027

Diego Moreno breaks a bone — 46 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market11 Jan 2027

Terms done: Andrés Dávila is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Carpi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Independiente Medellin is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Too dear: Independiente Medellin walk away from Ronaldo Lora

$3.4M was the most the club would pay and Real Cartagena were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad11 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Independiente Medellin

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

Squad11 Jan 2027

Adrián Arregui out for 36 days

The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Adrián Arregui, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Léider Berrío 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 dugout11 Jan 2027

Ángelo Rodríguez 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 Ángelo Rodríguez is on it.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Íker Blanco

“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 Jan 2027

Bryan Castrillón 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 Independiente Medellin, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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13 Edition

The Independiente Medellin Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Diego Moreno out for 130 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Independiente Medellin will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market26 Oct 2026

Enzo Larrosa has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Independiente Medellin they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Yony González 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Independiente Medellin

Carlos Mosquera and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Daniel Cataño

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

Squad26 Oct 2026

Too much change too quickly at Independiente Medellin

17 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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Léider Berrío has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Independiente Medellin 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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

A door opens for Ángelo Rodríguez

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 dugout26 Oct 2026

Carlos Mosquera knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Carlos Mosquera trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

12 Edition

The Independiente Medellin Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market19 Oct 2026

Independiente Medellin may not be able to give Diego Herazo what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Diego Herazo wants continental football; whether Independiente Medellin can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Independiente Medellin

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

Squad19 Oct 2026

Daniel Cataño 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 dugout19 Oct 2026

Independiente Medellin keep their word to Joaquín Varela

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Enzo Larrosa

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

The dugout19 Oct 2026

When it matters, Bryan Castrillón plays

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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

No place for Ivan Luquetta in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Independiente Medellin are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Juan José Córdoba is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Somebody is after Yony González’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Yony González suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Independiente Medellin have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

11 Edition

The Independiente Medellin Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match10 Oct 2026

Independiente Medellin tear Alianza Petrolera apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Alianza Petrolera, and it could have been more.

Squad12 Oct 2026

3 goals for Yony González

The match ball belongs to Yony González, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Alan Valdelamar says Independiente Medellin went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Independiente Medellin

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

Squad12 Oct 2026

A move Ivan Luquetta would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ivan Luquetta is living that version at Independiente Medellin, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match10 Oct 2026

Still nobody has beaten Independiente Medellin

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Independiente Medellin training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yony González 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.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Yony González was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Diego Herazo at his very best

Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Independiente Medellin.

In brief