Erick Zapata

Central Midfielder - Cienciano
6 Mar 2027
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Marked for Erick Zapata

28 Edition

The Cienciano Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Cienciano

Nicolás Barros Schelotto 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.

Boardroom8 Feb 2027

3 academy graduates step up at Cienciano

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market8 Feb 2027

One of our own: Juan Benavente joins the Cienciano first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Benavente is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market8 Feb 2027

Cienciano promote Cristian Lopez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristian Lopez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market8 Feb 2027

One of our own: Roberto Trauco joins the Cienciano first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Roberto Trauco is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match6 Feb 2027

Cienciano come up short against Alianza Atletico

Alianza Atletico left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Words at Cienciano training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Claudio Núñez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

The manager makes an example of Claudio Núñez

“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.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Erick Zapata signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Erick Zapata commits to Cienciano for another 4 years.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Squad Too much change too quickly at Cienciano
  • Looking ahead Cienciano take on the side everybody is chasing
Back issues
27 Edition

The Cienciano Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Feb 2027

Carlos Dávila arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Carlos Dávila has, at Cienciano, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Nicolás Barros Schelotto 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 Cienciano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Maximiliano Amondarain 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Carlos Dávila stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Carlos Dávila and Cienciano agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market1 Feb 2027

Cienciano buy the years ahead of Erick Zapata

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Looking ahead1 Feb 2027

Santiago Arias faces his old club

Alianza Atletico next, and one man in the Cienciano dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief