The Sporting Cristal Herald
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
Sporting Cristal book their European place
Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.
Market14 Dec 2026
Sporting Cristal may not be able to give Miguel Araujo what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Miguel Araujo wants continental football; whether Sporting Cristal can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Alianza Lima tell Sporting Cristal: Federico Girotti 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Sporting Cristal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Diego Otoya 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 Sporting Cristal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Cristian Benavente 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 Cristian Benavente is on it.
In brief
- Market Sporting Cristal put Diego Enríquez up for sale
- Squad Cristiano wants to know why he earns less
- Squad The transfer that hurt Leandro Sosa most
- The dugout The manager comes out for Juan Cruz González