Bogota U20

17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process
11 Edition

The Bogota Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Bogota

Cristian Rivas 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

Juan Camilo Quiñonez 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.

Squad

When it matters, Alejandro Aguilar 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.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Bogota Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cristian Rivas 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bogota training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Castro 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.

Boardroom

918% of the income goes out in wages at Bogota

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

9 Edition

The Bogota Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Juan Alberto Sánchez

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

Squad

Words at Bogota training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Díaz 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Bogota Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Bogota

Kevin Castro 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

Words at Bogota training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Camilo Quiñonez 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.

Squad

Juan Alberto Sánchez 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 Juan Alberto Sánchez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

7 Edition

The Bogota Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kevin Castro 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Bogota

Yan Marmolejo 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

When it matters, Alejandro Aguilar 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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Bogota Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cristian Rivas 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bogota training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Castro 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 769% of everything Bogota earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

5 Edition

The Bogota Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Juan Camilo Quiñonez 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.

Market

Still no signature from Juan Alberto Sánchez

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

In brief

4 Edition

The Bogota Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cristian Rivas 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bogota training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Castro 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.

Squad

Questions about Yeferson Contreras on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief

3 Edition

The Bogota Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The small margins put Bogota out

Out, 0‑1 to Independiente Medellin, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

A first appearance Luis Millán will want to forget — 5.44

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.44, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad

Tempers go at Bogota

Cristian Rivas 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

Kevin Castro 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.

Squad

Freilin 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.

Player ratings

Jafé Pérez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

2 Edition

The Bogota Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Juan Camilo Quiñonez 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Juan Alberto Sánchez

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

Market

The clock runs on Cristián Mosquera's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Market

Still no ink between Bogota and Juan Camilo Moreno

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bogota, another week without a signature from Juan Camilo Moreno.

Squad

Mauricio Medina 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 Bogota, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

1 Edition

The Bogota Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kevin Castro signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kevin Castro and Bogota agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Bogota

Cristián Mosquera 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

Words at Bogota training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Castro 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.

In brief