Deportes Quindio

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20 Feb 2027
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29 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Andrés Tello 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jhon Figueroa 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

A bad afternoon for Deportes Quindio against Aguilas Doradas

0‑2 to Aguilas Doradas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Andrés Tello 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.

The dugout

Jose Montero answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Jhonier Viveros 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 Deportes Quindio, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Jhoao 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 Jhoao Rodríguez is on it.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Jhoao Rodríguez

7 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Looking ahead

Jhonier Viveros faces his old club

Patriotas next, and one man in the Deportes Quindio dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Mauricio Castaño runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Jhon Figueroa 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jhonny Mena signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jhonny Mena commits to Deportes Quindio for another 2 years.

Squad

Jhonier Viveros 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

Jhoao Rodríguez’s goal not enough for Deportes Quindio

Jhoao Rodríguez scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to America de Cali, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

Juan Alfredo Arrieta 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.

Squad

Appearance number 200 for José Lloreda

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout

Jose Montero answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Jhonier Viveros left out for tactical reasons at Deportes Quindio

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

27 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

10 saves: Joel Silva was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Juan Alfredo Arrieta hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Quindio can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Quindio

Jhon Figueroa 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.

Market

Jhoao Rodríguez 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 Deportes Quindio can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Santiago Roa

“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.

Match

José Luís Sanabria sends Deportes Quindio past Once Caldas

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

Player ratings

Jhonny Mena shuts the door

Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

The dugout

A satisfied Jose Montero

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Jose Montero could afford to be generous.

In brief

26 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Deportes Quindio

0‑3 against Santa Fe, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Joel Silva

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The dugout

Javier Reina: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Deportes Quindio have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Quindio

Santiago Roa 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.

Boardroom

3 academy graduates step up at Deportes Quindio

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Andrés Tello 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

Mauricio Castaño runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Jhon Figueroa 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.

Market

One of our own: Hector Castillo joins the Deportes Quindio first team

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

In brief

25 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Jhon Figueroa says Deportes Quindio 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Quindio

Jhon Figueroa 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 Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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.

Transfer targets

Deportes Quindio rebuffed over Benjamín González

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. All Boys have kept their man, and Deportes Quindio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Jhoao 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 Jhoao Rodríguez is on it.

The dugout

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

24 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Hugo Palacios puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Deportes Quindio, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

The Union Magdalena deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Hugo Palacios reports back to Deportes Quindio with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

Jhonier Viveros out for 21 days

The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Jhonier Viveros, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Jhon Figueroa 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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.

Transfer targets

Deportes Quindio rebuffed over Joaquín Barolín

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Patronato have kept their man, and Deportes Quindio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Juan Alfredo Arrieta

“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 dugout

Andrés Tello asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Erik Núñez is a square peg at Deportes Quindio

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

23 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Andrés Tello hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Quindio can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Andrés Tello: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Deportes Quindio have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Kevin Parra turns Bogota down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

Jeifer Nontoa due for a Deportes Quindio medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Oscar Gonzalez will not be coming to Deportes Quindio

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Godoy Cruz is saying, and nobody at Deportes Quindio is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Quindio

Santiago Roa 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 Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrés Tello 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Marcos Echeverría

Deportes Quindio asked and Temperley said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jhonier Viveros

“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.

In brief

22 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jhonier Viveros puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Deportes Quindio, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Jhonier Viveros keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportes Quindio may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

Jhon Morcillo turns down Deportes Quindio

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Quindio

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

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

Transfer targets

Deportes Quindio rebuffed over Víctor Rivarola

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Guarani have kept their man, and Deportes Quindio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Bogota join the queue for Kevin Parra

Add another name to the list: Bogota have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kevin Parra. The answer from Deportes Quindio has not changed — yet.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jhoao Rodríguez

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

Boardroom

Wages eat 114% of everything Deportes Quindio 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

21 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Promotion for Deportes Quindio

Mathematically certain, and nobody in this town is going to bed early. Whatever else happened this season, it finishes a division above where it started.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ilja Zhbanov

Deportes Quindio asked and Rostov said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Quindio

Santiago Roa 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 Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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 dugout

No hiding place for Jhon Figueroa

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

Squad

Jhordy Camacho stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jhordy Camacho and Deportes Quindio agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Deportes Quindio are still strangers to each other

9 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Oscar Gonzalez is in the works

Deportes Quindio have made the call to Godoy Cruz. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

Deportes Quindio sign Jhordy Camacho, one for the future

Jhordy Camacho is 20, and Deportes Quindio have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

20 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Kevin Parra hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Quindio can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Santiago Roa 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Tobías Figueroa

Deportes Quindio asked and Albion said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

No hiding place for Javier Reina

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

Market

The shop window has Javier Reina in it

Deportes Quindio have let the market know Javier Reina can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

19 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Leandro Coronel asks to leave Deportes Quindio

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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 dugout

No hiding place for Roberto Riascos

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

Market

No place for Hugo Palacios in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Hugo Palacios has his answer from Deportes Quindio; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

Deportes Quindio put Jhonier Viveros up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Jhonier Viveros may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Boardroom

Open for business: Deportes Quindio enter the window

The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.

The dugout

The manager makes Javier Reina a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Deportes Quindio. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

Jhonny Mena has settled at Deportes Quindio

The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.

In brief

18 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Quindio

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

Market

Jhoao Rodríguez 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 Deportes Quindio can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

The dugout

Andrés Tello 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.

Boardroom

113% of the income goes out in wages at Deportes Quindio

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.

Squad

Luis Mena finally belongs at Deportes Quindio

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief

17 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Quindio

Javier Reina 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jhonier Viveros

“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.

In brief

16 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Quindio

Javier Reina 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

Jhonier Viveros 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

Hugo Rodriguez steps up from the Deportes Quindio academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hugo Rodriguez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

15 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Leandro Coronel damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Dany Angulo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dany Angulo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportes Quindio the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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 dugout

Javier Reina 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.

The dugout

Luis Mena 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 Deportes Quindio, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Still no ink between Deportes Quindio and Dany Angulo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Deportes Quindio, another week without a signature from Dany Angulo.

Market

Ezequiel Palomeque placed on the list

Deportes Quindio have made Ezequiel Palomeque available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market

Still no signature from Dany Angulo

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

In brief

14 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Leandro Coronel out for 27 days

27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportes Quindio lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Javier Reina keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportes Quindio may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Boardroom

An order from above at Deportes Quindio: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Quindio

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

Squad

Jhon Figueroa 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

Andrés Tello 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 113% of everything Deportes Quindio 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.

Squad

A step back for Javier Calle at Deportes Quindio

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Market

Still no ink between Deportes Quindio and Jhonny Mena

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Deportes Quindio, another week without a signature from Jhonny Mena.

In brief

13 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Leandro Coronel damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Quindio

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

Squad

Jhonier Viveros 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

Deportes Quindio are still strangers to each other

21 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.

The dugout

Jhoao Rodríguez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportes Quindio 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 dugout

Jhonny Mena 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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Andrés Tello 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 Deportes Quindio can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Quindio

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Jhoao Rodríguez

“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.

Squad

The formation has left Ezequiel Palomeque behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Deportes Quindio will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market

Deportes Quindio put Javier Calle up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Javier Calle may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Market

Talks stall between Deportes Quindio and Duvier Díaz

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Duvier Díaz asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The Eduardo Esterilla story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eduardo Esterilla signs something — a contract at Deportes Quindio or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

11 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Dany Angulo has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Jhonier Viveros

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

Market

One of our own: Luis Romero joins the Deportes Quindio first team

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

Market

One of our own: Wilmar Barrios joins the Deportes Quindio first team

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

Squad

No place for Duvier Díaz in the new shape

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

Market

Deportes Quindio bring in an old head

Leandro Coronel is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Squad

Somebody is after Oswaldo Henríquez’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Oswaldo Henríquez suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Deportes Quindio have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

10 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Quindio

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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 140% of everything Deportes Quindio 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Andrés Tello

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

Market

Hugo Palacios 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

Javier Calle signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Javier Calle and Deportes Quindio agree another 2 years.

Squad

Javier Calle is a square peg at Deportes Quindio

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

Deportes Quindio bring in an old head

Javier Calle is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market

Talks stall between Deportes Quindio and Yéiner Orozco

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

9 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Quindio

Javier Reina 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

Jhoao Rodríguez 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

Jhonier Viveros 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

The manager makes an example of Javier Reina

“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.

Squad

Deportes Quindio are still strangers to each other

13 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.

The dugout

Jhoao Rodríguez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Deportes Quindio 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Quindio

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhon Figueroa 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 dugout

Javier Reina 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 Javier Reina has written the date down.

The dugout

Uberney Rovira asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

A wage question at Deportes Quindio

José Lloreda has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

Market

The Eduardo Esterilla story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eduardo Esterilla signs something — a contract at Deportes Quindio or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

7 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Quindio

Roberto Riascos 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.

Squad

Jhonier Viveros 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

Jhonier Viveros 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.

Market

One of our own: Juan Santos joins the Deportes Quindio first team

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

Market

Felipe Caicedo steps up from the Deportes Quindio academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Felipe Caicedo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

The dugout

Santiago Roa asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

6 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Eduardo Esterilla says no to ASO Chlef

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Eduardo Esterilla had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Quindio

Roberto Riascos 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

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Andrés Tello

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

Squad

Juan Ocampo slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Juan Ocampo is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

Santiago Roa 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 Deportes Quindio, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

5 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Quindio

Javier Reina 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

Market

ASO Chlef join the queue for Eduardo Esterilla

Add another name to the list: ASO Chlef have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Eduardo Esterilla. The answer from Deportes Quindio has not changed — yet.

In brief

4 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Deportes Quindio bow out of the cup

Atletico Nacional go through and Deportes Quindio go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Jhoao Rodríguez scores twice — 8.81

Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

7 saves: Sergio Pabón was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Deportes Quindio may not be able to give Andrés Tello what he wants

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

Squad

Tempers go at Deportes Quindio

Javier Reina 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.

Player ratings

Hugo Palacios was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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

Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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 dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Jose Montero to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Uberney Rovira 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Eduardo Esterilla sends Deportes Quindio through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Eduardo Esterilla obliged against Deportivo Pasto. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Deportes Quindio.

Match

Eduardo Esterilla wins it after the whistle should have gone

102 minutes played. Eduardo Esterilla found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Deportivo Pasto went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

Hugo Palacios was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 29. 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

Javier Reina 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

The terraces

Deportes Quindio supporters have found a favourite in Eduardo Esterilla

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Eduardo Esterilla 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Eduardo Esterilla

Marked 8.28 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Jhoao Rodríguez at his very best

Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Deportes Quindio.

Squad

This league is too small for Jhon Figueroa

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Deportes Quindio will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief

2 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Dany Angulo has agreed to leave Deportes Quindio for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes Quindio

Javier Reina 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

Market

Deportes Quindio promote Javier Castillo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Javier Castillo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Carlos Valencia joins the Deportes Quindio first team

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

Market

Sebastian Vargas steps up from the Deportes Quindio academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sebastian Vargas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

1 Edition

The Deportes Quindio Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Javier Reina stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Javier Reina and Deportes Quindio agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Deportes Quindio

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

Squad

A row about effort at Deportes Quindio

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

Market

Jhoao Rodríguez 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.

Market

The clock runs on Mauricio Castaño's contract

24 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.

Squad

Deportes Quindio 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