Marked for Max Guerrero
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad28 Aug 2028
A fracture rules Angelo Campos out for 82 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason UTC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market28 Aug 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Aug 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” UTC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
In brief
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Tempers go at UTC
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Words at UTC training over how hard people work
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market30 Aug 2027
Luis Ramos wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad30 Aug 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 UTC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Aug 2027
David Camacho has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at UTC 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.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
Luis Garro 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 UTC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Jean Deza 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Bruno Duarte has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at UTC 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.
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Crisis
Squad7 Jun 2027
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” UTC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A move Max Guerrero 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. Max Guerrero is living that version at UTC, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market7 Jun 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Adolfo Muñoz 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 UTC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Jun 2027
0‑1 to Sporting Cristal, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market7 Jun 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. UTC will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Marked 8.60 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match13 Mar 2027
A 1‑0 win over Sport Huancayo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Deportivo Municipal to sit and watch. I want to come back to Universitario and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Edison Flores has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Universitario 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad15 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.
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Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Jairo Concha 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.