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Edition
The Universitario Popayan Gazette
24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Manuel Valencia damages knee ligaments — 106 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 106 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Universitario Popayan
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Camilo Borja was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Universitario Popayan
Alejandro Uribe and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Pablo Vargas
- The dugout Edwin Martinez keeps his manager's vote
- Market Carlos Gomez goes looking for football
- Squad Jefferson Martinez is the talk of the training ground