The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Squad1 Feb 2027
Gustavo Moretti damages knee ligaments — 54 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 54 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Kevin Giraldo 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Miguel Lemos runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Victor Martinez 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Juan José Forero 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Victor Martinez is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Universitario Popayan has been clear about where Victor Martinez stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Kevin Giraldo
- Loan watch Sebastian Sinisterra has seen enough of Deportes Quindio
- Match Universitario Popayan and Patriotas cancel each other out