David Ospina

Goalkeeper - Ypiranga
22 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 4 Transfers Relations Events 33 Awards 1 Matches History

Marked for David Ospina

16 Edition

The Ypiranga Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Cléo Silva

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

Squad16 Nov 2026

Luiz Daniel 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 Ypiranga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Robson

“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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Ypiranga are still strangers to each other

20 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Market16 Nov 2026

Lucas Ramos linked with a move away

The name of Lucas Ramos keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ypiranga say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Marcelo Valverde has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Marcelo Valverde has written the date down.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Ypiranga Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad9 Nov 2026

Cléo Silva damages knee ligaments — 118 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 118 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Age has not caught Raúl Quiroga yet — 8.01

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.01 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Ypiranga

Luiz Daniel 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.

Match7 Nov 2026

Raúl Quiroga among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Raúl Quiroga on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Ypiranga and Tombense.

Match7 Nov 2026

Raúl Quiroga sends Ypiranga past Tombense

It finished 4‑2, and it was Raúl Quiroga’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ypiranga.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

No hiding place for David Ospina

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

The terraces9 Nov 2026

The crowd has taken to Juan Ignacio Quatrocchi

At 22 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.

Market9 Nov 2026

One of our own: Guilherme Barbosa joins the Ypiranga first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Guilherme Barbosa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

One of those days for Estevão

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

14 Edition

The Ypiranga Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Nov 2026

Cléo Silva damages knee ligaments — 125 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 125 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A move Natan Masiero 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. Natan Masiero is living that version at Ypiranga, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Up for the corner, and Luís Fernando delivers — 7.93

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Luís Fernando scored, was marked 7.93, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Ypiranga

Luiz Daniel 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 dugout2 Nov 2026

Luiz Daniel 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.

Match27 Oct 2026

Luís Fernando sends Ypiranga past Maringá

It finished 1‑0, and it was Luís Fernando’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ypiranga.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

The form table has caught Luiz Daniel

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A place in the month's best eleven for Handerson

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Handerson has come out of that comparison in the side, and Ypiranga have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Market2 Nov 2026

Ypiranga and Natan Masiero are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

10 Edition

The Ypiranga Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces5 Oct 2026

Anger at Ypiranga spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad5 Oct 2026

David Ospina signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Ospina commits to Ypiranga for another 3 years.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Ypiranga

Luiz Daniel 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.

Market5 Oct 2026

As if he never left: Robson returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Robson is a Ypiranga player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad5 Oct 2026

David Ospina retires from international football

“131 caps. I have loved every one, and it is somebody else’s turn.” At 38 he has stepped away from his country and is going nowhere at Ypiranga.

Match3 Oct 2026

Ypiranga come up short against CSA

CSA left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Ypiranga agree a free transfer for Heitor

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

One of those days for Estevão

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad5 Oct 2026

David Ospina needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Ypiranga know which stage they are at.

In brief