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The Universitario Popayan Gazette
12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Diego Giraldo 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Francisco Valencia 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A late step up for David Falcao
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Johan Gonzalez
- Market The James Bacca story refuses to die