Millonarios U20

28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process
56 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Millonarios's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Millonarios has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

The dugout

Stiven Vega 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

Andrey Estupiñán 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 Andrey Estupiñán is on it.

Match

Millonarios share the spoils with Deportes Tolima

A 1‑1 draw with Deportes Tolima leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Miguel Rios: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Loan watch

7 goals on loan for Juan José Ramírez

22 appearances at Llaneros and the goals keep coming. Millonarios are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

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The Millonarios Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

John Córdoba keeps the receipts

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

Match

The wait goes on for Millonarios

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Match

The goals have deserted Millonarios

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Millonarios can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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 Millonarios against Deportivo Pasto

0‑1 to Deportivo Pasto, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Millonarios

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Loan watch

Jordan Ferrín wants to come home

“I did not go to Melbourne Victory to sit and watch. I want to come back to Millonarios and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 30 matches say the rest.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Miguel Rios left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

54 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Pedro Bravo 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

Millonarios may not be able to give Andrés Llinás what he wants

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

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Match

The goals have deserted Millonarios

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Millonarios can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Sebastián Valencia stays put

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of John Córdoba

“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

Millonarios are still strangers to each other

5 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

Javier Burrai 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 Javier Burrai is on it.

The dugout

Rodrigo Ureña 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 Rodrigo Ureña trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

53 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

John Córdoba runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Dewar Victoria has been here 10 seasons

63 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Millonarios walk away from Tomás Ángel

$790.0K was the most the club would pay and America de Cali were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Daniel Rivillo has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Market

John Córdoba 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

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Transfer targets

Levante tell Millonarios: Dani Martín is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Luis Vásquez deal

Millonarios ran out of time with Atletico Bucaramanga. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

In brief

52 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Millonarios through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over America de Cali, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Carlos Abeldaño wins it after the whistle should have gone

92 minutes played. Carlos Abeldaño found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and America de Cali went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

John Córdoba was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 3 in, 2 out at Millonarios

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 3 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Millonarios make their move for Tomás Ángel

$790.0K on the table at America de Cali. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Daniel Ruiz 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 Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Laurenz Orgler

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

In brief

51 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Sander Navarro asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Market

Millonarios turn down Aguilas Doradas for Dewar Victoria

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 Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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

Andrey Estupiñán 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

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Áron Yaakobishvili

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

Match

Jaguares take the points off Millonarios

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Danovis Banguero told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Danovis Banguero has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Millonarios.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Edinson Largacha

“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

50 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Javier Burrai

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.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Luis Vásquez

Millonarios and Atletico Bucaramanga have settled on $370.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Andrey Estupiñán yet — 8.30

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.30 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Alex Moreno Paz 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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Daniel Ruiz stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Ruiz and Millonarios agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Santiago Giordana moves on

Junior pay $1.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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

49 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Criss Macías damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 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

Sérgio Mosquera asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

The dugout

Juan Carlos Pereira keeps the receipts

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

Squad

6 saves: Javier Burrai was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

4 matches without a win for Millonarios

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Millonarios are no longer polite ones.

Market

Daniel Rivillo is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Market

Andrés Amaya 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

John Córdoba signs on for more

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

In brief

48 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Criss Macías

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

Match

Nowhere to hide for Millonarios

0‑4 against Independiente Medellin, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market

Not going: Jhon Riascos stays at Millonarios

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Bogota had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Juan Carlos Pereira asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Michael Krmenčík

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Millonarios have done the hard part with Austria Wien, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares 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 Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Arkadiusz Milik

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

In brief

47 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Criss Macías damages knee ligaments — 35 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 35 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 one-man rearguard from Javier Burrai

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.

Market

Cleiderman Osorio 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Millonarios rebuffed over Thomás Amilivia

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

Match

After 8 games, Millonarios finally taste it again

The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Atletico Nacional; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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

Atletico Nacional take the points off Millonarios

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Amaury Torralvo 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

Bogota join the queue for Jhon Riascos

Add another name to the list: Bogota have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jhon Riascos. The answer from Millonarios has not changed — yet.

In brief

46 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 45. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

James Aguirre keeps the receipts

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

Market

Millonarios sign Andrés Amaya for $1.7M

The paperwork is done: Andrés Amaya joins from Fortaleza CEIF in a deal worth $1.7M. Now comes the harder part.

Market

Daniel Rivillo 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Match

8 unbeaten for Millonarios

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Millonarios did not have in the autumn.

Market

Leonardo Castro moves on

Heracles pay $1.0M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Andrey Estupiñán 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 Millonarios

Amaury Torralvo 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

Santiago Giordana 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

45 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

$1.7M settles it between the clubs for Andrés Amaya

Fortaleza CEIF have accepted the money. What Millonarios do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

14 seasons of Stiven Vega

257 appearances across 14 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Millonarios know what they have.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Francisco Chaverra

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Johan Rodallega 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Andrés Amaya

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

Boardroom

Daniel Rivillo signs for Deportivo Cali while still at Millonarios

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Daniel Rivillo has agreed terms with Deportivo Cali for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market

Only the photograph left for Daniel Rivillo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Rivillo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

7 unbeaten for Millonarios

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Millonarios did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Javier Burrai 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

44 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 43. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Wuilker Fariñez says Millonarios 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.

Match

No end in sight to Millonarios's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Millonarios has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Whatever happens, Millonarios do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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

The half-term report on Millonarios

Position 13, 22 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

Player ratings

Jhomier Guerrero stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.42 on the card, and the Millonarios support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

Javier Burrai has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Millonarios 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

43 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 42. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

The wait goes on for Millonarios

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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 Juan Carlos Pereira

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

Player ratings

Andrey Estupiñán takes the honours

Marked 7.30 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Millonarios had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Rodrigo Ureña 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 Rodrigo Ureña is on it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Santiago Giordana

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.

The dugout

Miguel Rios: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

42 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Edinson Largacha

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Leonardo Castro scores twice — 8.51

Two goals and a mark of 8.51 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios

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

The dugout

Javier Burrai 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

200 appearances for Andrey Estupiñán

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Match

Millonarios refuse to lose to Aguilas Doradas

A point taken on 97 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Match

Millonarios share the spoils with Aguilas Doradas

A 2‑2 draw with Aguilas Doradas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Edinson Largacha

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Millonarios told Edinson Largacha something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

41 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Francisco Chaverra

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Wuilker Fariñez is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Wuilker Fariñez: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Cup progress for Millonarios

A 1‑1 win over Patriotas, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

The dugout

Jet Lee Espín: 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.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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

Cristian Graciano 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 Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Match

Millonarios rescue it on 95 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Patriotas had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

No hiding place for Amaury Torralvo

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

In brief

40 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Vintage Rodrigo Ureña — 8.07

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.07, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Millonarios see off Once Caldas

Three points for Millonarios, 2‑1 the final word against Once Caldas in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

One of their own: Pedro Bravo

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Pedro Bravo

Marked 8.12 — 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.

Squad

Appearance number 100 for Edinson Largacha

100 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.

Squad

Brayan Campáz signs on for more

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

Player ratings

Fabián Suárez Chalares 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

39 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Chastening afternoon for Millonarios

A 0‑3 beating by Santa Fe was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares 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

Rodrigo Ureña 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 Millonarios

Pedro Bravo 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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Millonarios

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Francisco Chaverra

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

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 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Miguel Rios to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sebastián Valencia

“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

Rodrigo Ureña has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Millonarios 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

38 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 40. 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 fracture rules Rodrigo Contreras out for 14 days

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

Player ratings

A brace, and Andrey Estupiñán takes the afternoon — 9.25

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Andrey Estupiñán provided it, and the 9.25 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Javier Burrai keeps Millonarios in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Pedro Bravo delivers — 7.92

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Pedro Bravo scored, was marked 7.92, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

The dugout

Jhon Riascos keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Javier Burrai 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.

Match

Andrey Estupiñán the difference as Millonarios beat Cortulua

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrey Estupiñán. 3‑2 against Cortulua, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

In brief

37 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 34. 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

Rodrigo Contreras breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Rodrigo Ureña delivers — 7.79

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Rodrigo Ureña scored, was marked 7.79, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Millonarios against Deportes Tolima

1‑2 to Deportes Tolima, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

No hiding place for Javier Burrai

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

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Arias 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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Miguel Rios to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Francisco Chaverra has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Millonarios 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

36 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Rodrigo Contreras out for 32 days

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

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Market

Andrés Llinás 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

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Player ratings

Pedro Bravo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Francisco Chaverra

7.44, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Millonarios had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

Amaury Torralvo named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Amaury Torralvo is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

Javier Burrai has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Millonarios 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

Amaury Torralvo dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

35 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stiven Vega

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

Squad

A fracture rules Rodrigo Contreras out for 39 days

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

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 32. 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

6 saves: Javier Burrai was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Pedro Bravo

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.

Match

Millonarios see off Atletico Bucaramanga

Three points for Millonarios, 2‑0 the final word against Atletico Bucaramanga in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Pedro Bravo

Marked 8.00 — 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.

The dugout

Miguel Rios has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Miguel Rios on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

34 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Stiven Vega out for 23 days

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

Squad

Rodrigo Contreras breaks a bone — 46 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Leonardo Castro scores twice — 9.26

Two goals and a mark of 9.26 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra 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

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Match

Leonardo Castro the difference as Millonarios beat Deportivo Pereira

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leonardo Castro. 2‑0 against Deportivo Pereira, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Jorge Arias 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’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Miguel Rios kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

Rodrigo Ureña 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 Rodrigo Ureña is on it.

In brief

33 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Stiven Vega damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 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

53 days out for Rodrigo Contreras after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

James Aguirre keeps the receipts

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

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Match

Millonarios come up short against La Equidad

La Equidad left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Juan Carlos Pereira 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

Inquest at Millonarios

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

32 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Stiven Vega out for 40 days

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

Squad

A fracture rules Rodrigo Contreras out for 62 days

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

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Stiven Vega keeps the receipts

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

Player ratings

Age has not caught Leonardo Castro yet — 8.00

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Javier Burrai signs on for more

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

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Market

Cristian Graciano 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 Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Match

No time for Jaguares to settle

The goal that put Jaguares ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Millonarios equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

In brief

31 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Stiven Vega out for 49 days

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

Match

Millonarios through in the cup

A 6‑1 win over Barranquilla, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A fracture rules Rodrigo Contreras out for 70 days

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

Player ratings

Both of them Jhon Riascos's — 8.95

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.95, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A day Sebastián del Castillo will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Jet Lee Espín, 19, steals the show — 8.00

Marked 8.00 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Javier Burrai

There were 6 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.

Match

7 goals as Millonarios and Barranquilla go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Millonarios and Barranquilla, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief

30 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stiven Vega

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

Squad

Rodrigo Contreras breaks a bone — 78 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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

Millonarios may not be able to give Fabián Suárez Chalares what he wants

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

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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

Jhomier Guerrero takes the honours

Marked 7.64 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Millonarios had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Sebastián Ramírez 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

Rodrigo Ureña has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Millonarios 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

29 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Stiven Vega out for 65 days

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

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

85 days out for Rodrigo Contreras after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Pedro Bravo delivers — 7.89

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Pedro Bravo scored, was marked 7.89, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Millonarios get the job done against Independiente Medellin

A 2‑1 win over Independiente Medellin, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

Millonarios supporters have found a favourite in Pedro Bravo

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

The drought breaks for Millonarios

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Independiente Medellin were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Player ratings

Jhomier Guerrero was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.14. 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.

In brief

28 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Stiven Vega out for 73 days

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Francisco Chaverra

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

93 days out for Rodrigo Contreras after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout

Jorge Arias keeps the receipts

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

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Javier Burrai

There were 7 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.

Match

The wait goes on for Millonarios

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Millonarios against Atletico Nacional

1‑2 to Atletico Nacional, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match

Francisco Chaverra answers Atletico Nacional immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Francisco Chaverra had Millonarios level again within 2 minutes, and Atletico Nacional never got to play with a lead at all.

In brief

27 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Stiven Vega out for 80 days

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

Squad

101 days out for Rodrigo Contreras after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Sérgio Mosquera 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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Francisco Chaverra

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

No end in sight to Millonarios's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Millonarios has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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

Andrés Llinás 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

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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

A bad afternoon for Millonarios against Envigado

0‑1 to Envigado, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

  • The dugout No hiding place for Sérgio Mosquera
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Millonarios dressing room in a hurry
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
26 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stiven Vega

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

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 36. 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

110 days out for Rodrigo Contreras after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Millonarios

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

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Amaury Torralvo 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

Millonarios promote Diego Cordoba from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Cordoba 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: Andres Gomez joins the Millonarios first team

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

Market

Millonarios promote Wilmar Duque from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Wilmar Duque 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.

In brief

25 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Stiven Vega damages knee ligaments — 99 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 99 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 fracture rules Rodrigo Contreras out for 119 days

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

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

The dugout

Sebastián Valencia 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

Rodrigo Ureña 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 Rodrigo Ureña is on it.

In brief

24 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Stiven Vega damages knee ligaments — 108 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 108 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.

The dugout

Sebastián Valencia says Millonarios 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.

Transfer targets

Millonarios baulk at the price for Joaquín Correa

Estudiantes wanted more than $3.6M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market

Millonarios say no — this time

The offer from Barranquilla for Jordan Ferrín was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios

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

Market

Cristian Graciano 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

Millonarios 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

Javier Burrai has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Millonarios 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

23 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Stiven Vega out for 116 days

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

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Millonarios to Raúl Loaiza

The clock did what Lanús would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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

Jordan Ferrín is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

The dugout

When it matters, Leonardo Castro 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

No hiding place for Jordan Ferrín

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

The dugout

Santiago Giordana 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 Santiago Giordana trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

A door opens for Sérgio Mosquera

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

22 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Too dear: Millonarios walk away from Ignacio Ramírez

$5.5M was the most the club would pay and Newell's Old Boys were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

Millonarios bid $3.2M for Joaquín Correa

The offer went to Estudiantes this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Matías de los Santos 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Millonarios bid $2.2M for Raúl Loaiza

The offer went to Lanús this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Cristian Quiñónes has one foot out of the door

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

Market

Felipe Cifuentes arrives at Millonarios in a $480.0K statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Millonarios have paid $480.0K for Felipe Cifuentes, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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

Fabián Suárez Chalares 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 Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Jorge Arias 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.

In brief

21 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Millonarios rebuffed over Diber Cambindo

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

Market

Millonarios sign Cristian Graciano for $1.2M

The paperwork is done: Cristian Graciano joins from Real Cartagena in a deal worth $1.2M. Now comes the harder part.

Transfer targets

Millonarios make their move for Felipe Cifuentes

$480.0K on the table at Once Caldas. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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

Fortaleza CEIF watching Carlos Sarabia

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Millonarios have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Stiven Vega

“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.

Market

Millonarios buy the years ahead of Sebastián Ramírez

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

No place for Pedro Bravo in the new shape

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

In brief

20 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from James Aguirre

There were 11 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.

Match

Millonarios beaten on the continent

2‑4 against Palmeiras, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.

Market

Terms done: Cristian Quiñónes is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Valledupar waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings

Both of them Rodrigo Ureña's — 8.00

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Millonarios pay FC Midtjylland $4.4M for a proper upgrade

FC Midtjylland did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $4.4M for Pedro Bravo, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets

Cristian Graciano due for a Millonarios medical

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

Market

Barranquilla come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Millonarios did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Market

Millonarios get their man

The chase for David Contreras ended with $170.0K changing hands and America de Cali out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

In brief

19 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Deportivo Pasto come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Millonarios did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The dugout

Stiven Vega: 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.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Millonarios make their move for Pedro Bravo

$4.4M on the table at FC Midtjylland. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares arrives at Millonarios in a $890.0K statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Millonarios have paid $890.0K for Fabián Suárez Chalares, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Transfer targets

Millonarios make their move for Orles Aragón

$910.0K on the table at Tigres. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Kevin De La Hoz arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Kevin De La Hoz has, at Millonarios, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Amaury Torralvo 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

Jorge Arias 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

7 new faces, and Millonarios are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

18 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A chastening European night for Millonarios

0‑3 against Carabobo. The honest reading is not that the players were poor; it is that the distance between this club and that one is currently measured in things money takes years to buy.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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

Andrés Llinás 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

Rodrigo Ureña 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 Jaine Barreiro

“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.

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Rodrigo Ureña left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Rodrigo Ureña will call it something else in private.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Millonarios

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

Miguel Rios: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

17 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Juan Carlos Pereira keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sebastián Valencia

“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

Francisco Chaverra 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 Francisco Chaverra is on it.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

The dugout

Sérgio Mosquera 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 Sérgio Mosquera has written the date down.

In brief

16 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Squad

A move Daniel Rivillo 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. Daniel Rivillo is living that version at Millonarios, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

The dugout

Dorlan Pabón 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

Rodrigo Ureña has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Millonarios 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

Danovis Banguero 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

Jaine Barreiro called up by his country

A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Millonarios that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.

The dugout

The manager makes Sérgio Mosquera a promise

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

Market

Millonarios and Daniel Rivillo 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

15 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

A European night to remember for Millonarios

2‑1 against Penarol, 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.

Player ratings

Both of them Leonardo Castro's — 9.04

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.04, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout

Jordan Ferrín keeps the receipts

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

Match

At last: Millonarios win one

8 matches without a win, and then this, against Penarol. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios

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

Player ratings

One of those days for Francisco Chaverra

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

No time for Penarol to settle

The goal that put Penarol ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Millonarios equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Stiven Vega

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Stiven Vega.

In brief

14 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

The dugout

Andrés Llinás has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Millonarios 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.

Squad

Andrés Llinás loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Andrés Llinás. Millonarios will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

The dugout

Cristian Quiñónes 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

Jorge Arias 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 Jorge Arias trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

13 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Millonarios do the business in Europe

0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Millonarios came through the finding-out well against Penarol.

Match

The wait goes on for Millonarios

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Javier Burrai

There were 6 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.

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. 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 Millonarios

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

Squad

Jorge Arias 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

Jorge Arias left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Jorge Arias will call it something else in private.

The dugout

Francisco Chaverra has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Millonarios 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Andrés Llinás

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

12 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Stiven Palomeque gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Stiven Palomeque has just signed for Millonarios, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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

Amaury Torralvo 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Stiven Vega

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

The dugout

A promise honoured for Rodrigo Ureña

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Millonarios told Rodrigo Ureña something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Luis Mena stays put

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

The dugout

When it matters, Rodrigo Ureña 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

A door opens for Santiago Giordana

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

Talks stall between Millonarios and Stiven Palomeque

“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

11 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Millonarios

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Player ratings

Amaury Torralvo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sérgio Mosquera

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

Squad

13 new faces, and Millonarios are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

The form table has caught Leonardo Castro

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.

The dugout

When it matters, Javier Burrai 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

Miguel Rios: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Squad

Jhon Riascos 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

11 saves: Javier Burrai was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

A European lesson for Millonarios

0‑2 against Palmeiras. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Match

The wait goes on for Millonarios

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Leonardo Castro, 34, rolls back the years — 7.86

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.86 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Arias 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

Appearance number 200 for Stiven Vega

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.

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Santiago Giordana 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

9 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 47. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

9 saves: Javier Burrai was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Rodrigo Ureña yet — 7.95

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.95 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

No end in sight to Millonarios's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Millonarios has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Andrés Llinás 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Rodrigo Ureña

“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

Jorge Arias 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 has not finished forgetting Andrés Llinás's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

8 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Millonarios do the business in Europe

1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Millonarios came through the finding-out well against Carabobo.

Player ratings

Vintage Rodrigo Ureña — 7.90

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.90, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Francisco Chaverra — 7.96

Marked 7.96. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Match

Late, late show earns Millonarios a point

Minute 95, against America de Cali, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Match

Millonarios caught on 92 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Carabobo scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Player ratings

Dorlan Pabón beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

The cruellest goal, and it is Sebastián Valencia's

A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Millonarios will not try tonight.

The dugout

No place for Juan Carlos Pereira on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Millonarios pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

7 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Millonarios

1‑5 against Once Caldas, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Player ratings

Vintage Leonardo Castro — 7.93

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.93, and nobody on the pitch better.

Match

6 goals as Millonarios and Once Caldas go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Millonarios and Once Caldas, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Dorlan Pabón 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Arias 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Amaury Torralvo

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

No hiding place for Danovis Banguero

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

Boardroom

Doors closed at Millonarios

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad

Millonarios are still strangers to each other

12 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

6 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Javier Burrai stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

A brace, and Leonardo Castro takes the afternoon — 9.12

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Leonardo Castro provided it, and the 9.12 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Amaury Torralvo 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.

Match

Millonarios find a way past Santa Fe

Santa Fe made Millonarios work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Arias 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.

Player ratings

Andrey Estupiñán runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Leonardo Castro named player of the month

The award goes to Leonardo Castro, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

The dugout

A satisfied Miguel Rios

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Miguel Rios could afford to be generous.

The dugout

The form table has caught Santiago Giordana

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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Javier Burrai stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

4 matches without a win for Millonarios

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Millonarios are no longer polite ones.

Match

Millonarios come up short against Cortulua

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

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

The dugout

Santiago Giordana 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

Inquest at Millonarios

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

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 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Miguel Rios to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Jhon Riascos

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

4 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Francisco Chaverra

Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Darwin Quintero, 38, rolls back the years — 8.08

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.08 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

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

Squad

Jet Lee Espín signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jet Lee Espín commits to Millonarios for another 4 years.

Match

Millonarios come up short against Deportes Tolima

Deportes Tolima left with the points after a 3‑5 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Millonarios and Deportes Tolima in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

The dugout

Jet Lee Espín 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

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Arias 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

Miguel Rios faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Miguel Rios after 3‑5, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

3 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 46. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

The small margins put Millonarios out

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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

Jhon Riascos signs on for more

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

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Arias 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

Millonarios rescue it on 93 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Envigado had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Match

Millonarios refuse to lose to Llaneros

A point taken on 86 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Player ratings

Rodrigo Contreras misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

Match

Honours even between Millonarios and Envigado

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

2 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Francisco Chaverra beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 35. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Both of them Leonardo Castro's — 8.97

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.97, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Leonardo Castro signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonardo Castro and Millonarios agree another 2 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

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

Match

Millonarios find a way past Atletico Bucaramanga

Atletico Bucaramanga made Millonarios work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market

Millonarios promote Jefferson Mejia from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jefferson Mejia 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: Luis Palacios joins the Millonarios first team

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

Market

Millonarios promote Edwin Falcao from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Edwin Falcao 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

No mercy from Millonarios

Alianza Petrolera will want this one forgotten quickly: 13‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Millonarios were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

A day Darwin Quintero will not forget

4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

4 goals for Stiven Vega

The match ball belongs to Stiven Vega, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

Leonardo Castro scores twice — 10.00

Two goals and a mark of 10.00 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Both of them Juan Carlos Pereira's — 8.31

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.31, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

16 seasons of David Mackalister Silva

567 appearances across 16 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Millonarios know what they have.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Darwin Quintero yet — 8.35

At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.35 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jaine Barreiro and Millonarios agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Darwin Quintero among the goals in a wild afternoon

13 goals in one match, Darwin Quintero on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Millonarios and Alianza Petrolera.

In brief