Marked for Brian Borja
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
93 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Victor Diaz 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Sergio Muriel 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ivan Perez 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ivan Perez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The decline has begun for Luis Murillo
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Universitario Popayan is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I watch every Universitario Popayan game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Veracruz runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Universitario Popayan will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Wilmar Cordoba
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market5 Oct 2026
The Ivan Perez talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Universitario Popayan know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.