Marked for Nadhir Colunga
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
$700.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
Cienciano spend $700.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $700.0K for Luiggi Alburqueque, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Market21 Dec 2026
Add another name to the list: Alianza Atletico have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Nadhir Colunga. The answer from Cienciano has not changed — yet.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ray Sandoval 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Álvaro Rojas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cienciano 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Gerson Barreto keeps the shirt for now, at Cienciano's convenience rather than his own.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Claudio Núñez 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nadhir Colunga pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cienciano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Claudio Núñez 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sebastián Cavero has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cienciano 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Mjondalen come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cienciano did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 45 days on the sidelines for Santiago Arias, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Carlos Garcés 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.