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The Universitario Popayan Gazette
31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Juan Castillo 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Universitario Popayan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Santos 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
When it matters, Cristian Martinez 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.
In brief
- Squad The manager plants his flag on Pablo Restrepo