Teo Gutiérrez

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Retired
14 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Teo Gutiérrez

18 Edition

The Junior Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Yimmi Chará out for 90 days

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

Match

A European night to remember for Junior

1‑1 against Portuguesa, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Squad

Leyvin Balanta 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 Junior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Jermein Peña has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Junior can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Junior

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jannenson Sarmiento

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Jean Carlos Pestaña reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Player ratings

Guillermo Paiva was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.06. 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.

The dugout

Junior keep their word to Yimmi Chará

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.

In brief

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12 Edition

The Junior Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Junior

Leyvin Balanta 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.

Market

Junior may not be able to give Cristian Barrios what he wants

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

Squad

Luis Muriel 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

No hiding place for Fabián Ángel

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

The dugout

When it matters, Cristian Barrios 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.

The dugout

José Enamorado is still paying for one afternoon at Junior

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.

Squad

No place for Juan Manuel Valencia in the new shape

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

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Tití Rodríguez’s exile

7 goals in 9 games at Deportivo Cali — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Junior updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

Teo Gutiérrez 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 Teo Gutiérrez has written the date down.

In brief

1 Edition

The Junior Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A brace, and Francisco Fydriszewski takes the afternoon — 8.59

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Francisco Fydriszewski provided it, and the 8.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Mauro Silveira 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

Francisco Fydriszewski stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Francisco Fydriszewski and Junior agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Junior

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

Squad

Luis Muriel 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.

Match

Junior see off America de Cali

Three points for Junior, 3‑1 the final word against America de Cali in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Déiber Caicedo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Nobody at Junior has picked up the phone to Francisco Fydriszewski

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

Junior are still strangers to each other

10 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.

In brief