Marcelo Ballesteros

Striker - Ayacucho
8 Jul 2028
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The Ayacucho Post

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Ayacucho

Position 11 and 15 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Kevin Ferreyra asks to leave Ayacucho

“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.

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

No deal for Carlos Ayasta at that price

Ayacucho offered $9.0K; Cienciano said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

Ayacucho rebuffed over Jefferson Churi

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

Squad

Jeisson 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.

Squad

Ayacucho are still strangers to each other

10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Jiries Salem knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jiries Salem trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Piero Covinos joins Ayacucho to strengthen the squad

Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Ayacucho have gone and got theirs early.

In brief