Cristopher Loayza

Left Midfielder - Universitario U20
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Marked for Cristopher Loayza

65 Edition

The Universitario Gazette

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match21 Oct 2027

Jairo Concha lights up a European night for Universitario

1‑0 against Deportivo Riestra, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Jairo Concha was at the centre of the description.

Market25 Oct 2027

Jesús Castillo asks to leave Universitario

“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.

Market25 Oct 2027

Only the photograph left for Yuriel Celi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yuriel Celi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Universitario the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market25 Oct 2027

César Inga wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Universitario hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad25 Oct 2027

Jesús Castillo 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.

Squad25 Oct 2027

Universitario count the cost of losing Horacio Mora

37 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings25 Oct 2027

Jairo Concha was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Market25 Oct 2027

Universitario may not be able to give Jorge Cabezudo what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jorge Cabezudo wants continental football; whether Universitario can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad25 Oct 2027

Universitario count the cost of losing Cristopher Loayza

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

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61 Edition

The Universitario Gazette

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad27 Sep 2027

Jorge Murrugarra damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market27 Sep 2027

César Inga asks to leave Universitario

“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.

Market27 Sep 2027

Yuriel Celi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Universitario they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market27 Sep 2027

Santiago Gauna has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Universitario can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad27 Sep 2027

A row about effort at Universitario

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesús Castillo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Universitario lose Cristopher Loayza

48 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Lisandro Alzugaray 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.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Williams Riveros knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Universitario, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Kevin Quevedo has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Kevin Quevedo has written the date down.

In brief