Luis Sánchez

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Ayacucho
24 Jun 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Luis Sánchez

75 Edition

The Ayacucho Post

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Abello

15 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.

Boardroom

Ayacucho spell it out for Carlos Reyna

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Carlos Reyna has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Ayacucho

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

18 days out for Diego Encinas 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.

Transfer targets

Ayacucho rebuffed over Jairo Concha

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Universitario have kept their man, and Ayacucho go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A move Andy Contreras 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. Andy Contreras is living that version at Ayacucho, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Miguel Silveira

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ayacucho have done the hard part with Universitario, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Ayacucho

Daniel Abello 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $9.0K for Carlos Ayasta

Ayacucho have gone to Cienciano with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

In brief

Back issues
72 Edition

The Universitario Gazette

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Universitario lift the trophy

The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.

Match

Federico Girotti lights up a European night for Universitario

4‑2 against Nacional, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Federico Girotti was at the centre of the description.

Market

Terms done: Hugo Ancajima is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Alianza Atletico waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Universitario is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Not going: Yuriel Celi stays at Universitario

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Alianza Lima had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Player ratings

Federico Girotti scores twice — 8.63

Two goals and a mark of 8.63 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Adolfo Muñoz arrives at Universitario in a $3.2M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Universitario have paid $3.2M for Adolfo Muñoz, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Squad

Federico Girotti is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Universitario will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

Universitario get their man

The chase for Stefano Fernández ended with $1.0M changing hands and Alianza Atletico out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Boardroom

Luis Sánchez has agreed to leave Universitario for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

In brief