Éder Costa

Striker - Universitario Popayan
17 Jan 2027
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13 Edition

The Universitario Popayan Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Oct 2026

The knee: Francisco Barrios out for 134 days

134 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Universitario Popayan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad26 Oct 2026

44 days out for Duvan Bacca after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Universitario Popayan will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market26 Oct 2026

Andres Murillo asks to leave Universitario Popayan

“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.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Universitario Popayan Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Oct 2026

65 days out for Duvan Bacca after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Universitario Popayan will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market5 Oct 2026

Daniel Perez asks to leave Universitario Popayan

“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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

James Cordoba 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 Universitario Popayan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Universitario Popayan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Mejia 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

The armband comes off Francisco Mejia

Universitario Popayan will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Edwin Romero gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

6 Edition

The Universitario Popayan Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Sep 2026

Duvan Bacca breaks a bone — 94 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market7 Sep 2026

Valentín Muñoz hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Universitario Popayan can pretend not to have heard.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Francisco Mejia 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 Universitario Popayan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

3 Edition

The Universitario Popayan Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Aug 2026

The cup run ends for Universitario Popayan

1‑3 against America de Cali, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Francisco Mejia

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Universitario Popayan

Francisco Mejia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Universitario Popayan

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

The dugout17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Fabian Giraldo

“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.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Johan Mejia left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

One moment undoes Wilmar Murillo

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

When it matters, Hector Sanchez plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Hector Sanchez is off the mark for Universitario Popayan

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief