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The Sporting Cristal Herald
21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Sporting Cristal
Irven Ávila and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Sporting Cristal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago González 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
When it matters, Cristian Benavente plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Squad A wage question at Sporting Cristal
- Market The clock does Johan Madrid’s negotiating for him
- Squad Gabriel takes up the language