From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at UTC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Ronald Huamán reports back to UTC with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
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Steady
Match29 May 2027
Three points for UTC, 2-1 the final word against Alianza Lima in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 May 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Arquímedes Figuera will call it something else in private.
Squad31 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Brady Paz
“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.
Squad31 May 2027
Matías Daniele knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at UTC, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad31 May 2027
Marcos Lliuya wants a proper job in this side
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Marcos Lliuya has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. UTC know, and have known for weeks.
Boardroom31 May 2027
UTC were not finished after all
Written off a fortnight ago, the squad has closed ranks and answered on the pitch. Something was said behind that door, and so far it is holding.
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Crisis
Squad29 Mar 2027
131 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Steady
Match13 Feb 2027
UTC get the job done against Ayacucho
A 1-0 win over Ayacucho, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Jean Deza 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A first senior shirt for Brady Paz
Every debut is a small story about the future: Brady Paz, 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Steady
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
Silverware for UTC
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Match9 Dec 2026
UTC march on in the cup
Melgar are out and UTC go through, 2-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market14 Dec 2026
The name of Marcelo Ballesteros has come up in conversations UTC were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jamilton Isuiza commits to UTC for another 3 years.
Squad14 Dec 2026
No place for Jean Deza 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 UTC pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Market14 Dec 2026
He is 19, and nobody at UTC signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market14 Dec 2026
Salvador Negrete is 20, and UTC have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad14 Dec 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. UTC have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market14 Dec 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Joshua Cantt has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at UTC.