The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Squad5 Oct 2026
The knee: Rodrygo Costa out for 124 days
124 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Arthur Rangel puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Universitario Popayan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Richard Montero 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. Kevin Falcao 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
Pedro Ramírez slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Pedro Ramírez is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Francisco Gonzalez 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
- The dugout Nicolas Murillo gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Edwin Restrepo asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Sergio Restrepo