The Sport Huancayo Sentinel
Squad17 Aug 2026
Angel Zamudio keeps Sport Huancayo in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Juan Giménez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2026
Sport Huancayo out of the cup
UTC ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nahuel Luján 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 Sport Huancayo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Sport Huancayo and Alexi Gómez
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Hugo Ángeles 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Roberto Callens to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Mario Suárez dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Gustavo Martini Rissi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustavo Martini Rissi, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Nahuel Luján left out for tactical reasons at Sport Huancayo
- Player ratings Giuseppe Valdeavellano changes it off the bench
- Market The shop window has Cristian Mendoza in it