Marked for Thiago Ferraro
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
Félix Uculmana damages knee ligaments — 53 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 53 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Alfredo Carrillo out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ayacucho will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Ayacucho
Félix Uculmana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
75 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ayacucho lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ayacucho this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Félix Uculmana
98 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ayacucho lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Dec 2026
66 days out for Alfredo Carrillo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ayacucho will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market14 Dec 2026
Ayacucho say no — this time
The offer from Melgar for Jean Pierre Archimbaud 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.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ayacucho have done the hard part with Alianza Lima, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sport Huancayo is saying, and nobody at Ayacucho is enjoying the guessing.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A move Ayrton Unzueta 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. Ayrton Unzueta is living that version at Ayacucho, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Ayacucho asked and Sporting Cristal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Thiago Ferraro and Ayacucho agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A loan move for Carlos Jiménez is in the works
Ayacucho have made the call to Sport Huancayo. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.