22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process
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The Colón Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Matías Budiño wins the shoot-out

2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Match

Colón bow out of the cup

Defensores go through and Colón go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market

Colón turn down Shanghai Shenhua for Lucas Cuffia

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Tomás Gallay was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Colón

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

Squad

Words at Colón training over how hard people work

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

The terraces

Colón supporters have found a favourite in Jonás Ravano

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Jonás Ravano has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Colón get the job done against San Martín SJ

A 2‑0 win over San Martín SJ, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

One of our own: Gabriel Morales joins the Colón first team

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

In brief

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The Colón Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Colón turn down Chania for Ignacio Antonio

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Colón

Matías Budiño 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Matías Budiño

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

Squad

Franco García 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Matías Godoy

A mark of 7.65, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

Colón share the spoils with Chaco For Ever

A 1‑1 draw with Chaco For Ever leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market

Qingdao West Coast expected to open talks for Elías Santini

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Colón will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

36 months and counting on Ignacio Antonio

Still no offer on the table, and Ignacio Antonio’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Pedro De Luca was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Colón dressing room was either.

In brief

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The Colón Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A debut Thiago Fusco will not forget — 7.44

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.44 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Colón turn down Albacete for Ignacio Lago

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Federico Rasmussen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Federico Rasmussen commits to Colón for another 2 years.

Squad

Matías Budiño 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 Colón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Colón training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Godoy 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.

Match

Colón see off Defensores Unidos

Three points for Colón, 2‑1 the final word against Defensores Unidos in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

Colón supporters have found a favourite in Thiago Fusco

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Thiago Fusco has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

Qingdao West Coast join the queue for Elías Santini

Add another name to the list: Qingdao West Coast have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Elías Santini. The answer from Colón has not changed — yet.

Player ratings

One of those days for Ignacio Lago

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief